Commencement Forum - Threats to Democracy and Rights
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Commencement Forum
In partnership with the Class of 1969
Threats to Democracy and Rights
Join the Watson Institute for a discussion on current threats and challenges to democracy, election security, and rights around the world, featuring supreme court analyst Kate Shaw ’01 and a panel of distinguished Watson faculty.
Speakers will include:
Kate Shaw ’01, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Corey Brettschneider, Professor of Political Science
Wendy Schiller, Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, Alison S. Ressler Professor of Political Science
Moderated by: Edward Steinfeld, Howard R. Swearer Director of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Dean’s Professor of China Studies, Professor of Political Science
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usa is not a democracy, so you don't have rights. you have privileges, which are similar, but may disappear at the convenience of the ruling group.
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If you talk to Libertarians, the golden era of rights was in the pre civil war era. Which happened to be a period of institutionalized slavery. This apparent contradiction is why the politics of Liberal rights are met with skepticism. (In the pre civil war era, rights were only guaranteed by the Federal government. Other levels of government did not respect rights, nor were they required to.) We have rights, you've just been misinformed by Liberals and Libertarians about how they've been using them. (Not just the bill of rights, we have civil rights, and some semblance of labor rights remain. Rights Libertarians are especially prone to overlooking.) Also, your notion of any kind of *permanent* privileges is an attempted to overthrow all future democracies. That leaves replacing the ruling group as the solution. Because that's the actual solution. It happens periodically.