Sentences with phrase «of racial superiority»

Earlier in this Chapter I discussed how historical government actions premised on discriminatory notions of racial superiority have broken down traditional forms of authority and created tensions within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Thinly veiled notions of racial superiority have informed every aspect of the non-response to climate change so far.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, white supremacy spawned fever dreams of «scientific racism,» yielding the junk science of eugenics to justify discriminatory agendas rooted in claims of racial superiority.

He thinks we understand enough about human genetics to know that the notion of racial superiority is absurd.

It is directly linked with the idea of Racial Superiority and Antisemitism.

With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their longing for human - engineered salvation.

The pastor should've stood up and invited those who had a false sense of racial superiority to reconsider how they were going to escape final condemnation on the day of judgement.

Not exact matches

Chesterton was, in fact, brusquely impatient of current ideas about racial superiority: «I shall» he wrote in 1925,» begin to take seriously those classifications of superiority and inferiority, when I find a man classifying himself as inferior.

Megan Kelly and those who believe in racial superiority of the white race are so insecure that they can not accept that Jesus Christ was not of European extraction.

While the nations on the Continent had their revolutions and, for good or evil, fought over ideas — whether it be the divine right of kings, liberty, equality, and fraternity, scientific socialism, or racial superiority — we were, as Napoleon and others have said, a nation of shopkeepers.

While the Allies might not have run any death camps, the shared belief in racial superiority allowed them to at best ignore and at worst encourage the Third Reich's aggressive campaign of racial purity.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

It is a crowing and unabashed assertion of English superiority, unreconstructed from the Imperial era, deeply reliant on fraudulent history and denialism, and involving the ritualistic reproduction and invocation of racial stereotypes about «foreigners» (both in Britain and outside it).

Many of the comments here are right to suggest that most political movements that emphasise cultural imperialism and «racial superiority» do not need any ideological coherence, but only a self - serving agenda and the right socio - economic «climate that favors growth.»

Contrary to such claims, they are part of an overall regime imbed at preserving demographic superiority of one racial group over another in certain areas.

As a typical example, racial superiority ideas were part of Nazism, but not strictly speaking a major foundational...

Included in this were the rise of European superiority and the trappings of eugenics and racial purity.

In the past, she's portrayed characters with no trouble accepting a variety of ridiculous notions, ranging from metal - skinned murder skeletons and men with spider powers, to the racial superiority of whites and M. Night Shyamalan's role as a writer of radical, world - changing power.

After two Tuskegee Airmen are brought to the camp, racial tensions between the Yankee prisoners erupt, leading to a murder and an extended court martial that casts doubt on the American prisoners» moral superiority in questions of race and justice.

Unless the learning environment is one where all children are expected to perform at a high level, the lesson that white children and children of color learn is too often a reinforcement of racial hierarchies and ideology about assumed inferiority and superiority.

Martin's story (written for the stage) is much more elaborate, a dramatic monologue delivered by a teenaged baton twirler who desperately wants the audience to admire and envy her but who can not quite stifle her feelings of superiority — racial, athletic and spiritual.

In practice, these arguments were used to justify unfettered accumulation of wealth by the few, racial superiority and imperial conquest.

Glorified paintings of cultural and racial superiority over the Dakota people created at the turn of the last century still adorn the state capitol's Senate chambers, even after Governor Mark Dayton set up a special committee last year to survey citizens about relocating the offensive artwork.

It disturbs the «peace» of false history, and a false sense of racial or class superiority.

During and after the War intellectual interest was driven away from those ideas by Nazi use of climatic determinism to promote racial superiority.

[177] The Court also directed its attention to the position taken in the international community in eradicating discrimination including the dissemination of ideas based on racial and religious superiority.

Actions aimed at the incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity, abasement of human dignity, and also propaganda of the exceptionality, superiority, or inferiority of individuals by reason of their attitude to religion, national, or racial affiliation, if these acts have been committed in public or with the use of mass media, shall be punishable by a fine in the amount of 500 to 800 minimum wages, or in the amount of the wage or salary, or any other income of the convicted person for a period of five to eight months, or by restraint of liberty for a term of up to three years, or by deprivation of liberty for a term of two to four years.

that any doctrine of superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous,

Attitudes of racial and cultural superiority led to a suppression of Aboriginal culture and values.

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,

Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin, racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust,