First, anti-establishment forces are slowly but steadily changing the nature and
content of political debate overall.
Not exact matches
Unsurprisingly, this leads to no small degree
of social and
political concern, and the UK is currently engaged in an emotive
debate as to how best we might balance individual rights to protection from legal but «harmful» online
content against rights to sexual freedom and freedom
of information or expression.
Cults, then, tend to close down more detailed or complex discussion, reducing
political debate to
content free slogans and faith in the qualities, real or imagined,
of leading individuals.
Make them the same length as a decent lesson — at least 50 minutes — so that they can be planned properly, and they can be used to wrestle with substantial
content, such as a wellbeing issue like bullying, a big
political debate like who should be the next President
of the United States, or an area to explore in science, maths, or history.
By building strong collaborations between researchers, community organizations, and policy makers, The Civil Rights Project hopes to raise the level
of discourse on targeted issues and to reframe the tone and
content of many
of the current legal and
political debates.
If you're as terrified as I am by the
content and tone
of contemporary
political debates in the US, then you will either be greatly cheered or terribly ashamed (or both) when you take a look at a very different approach to dealing with «the other» in our lives.
Editor's note: Once upon a time,
political arguments over the
content of science education focused on a single topic: evolution.While it would be wonderful to think that such
debates ended with the Scopes Monkey Trial, I live in Missouri... where some members
of our legislature still think our science classrooms are the proper places for ideological
debates.
The Etch a Sketch manufacturers are keeping their nose out
of the
political debate though,
content to live out that tried and true adage, «there's no such thing as bad publicity.»
However, many
of those adverts carried little
political content, instead primarily aiming to inflame the
debate by, for instance, linking the Black Lives Matter group to police murders, or promoting counter-protests against the Westboro Baptist church.
Facebook Chief Information Officer Alex Stamos said in a blog post Tuesday that the
content the social media company took down «included commentary on domestic and international
political issues, the promotion
of Russian culture and tourism as well as
debate on more everyday issues.»