The Moral Blindness of a Post-Modern Society in “Killings” In Andre Dubus’s short story “Killings,” Dubus emphasizes the idea that there are significant amounts of moral blindness in a post-modern society. He uses not only personal relationships, like those between Frank, Mary Ann, and Richard, but also society as a whole to show how this idea of moral blindness affects everyone. Dubus uses the idea of moral blindness in the story like a crack in a windshield; it starts out small, but as the crack continues to grow, it becomes more dangerous for everyone in the car. No person in this post-modern society is safe from becoming morally blind, but Dubus makes a point to show that nature is unscathed by this pandemic, and is the only morally straight element in this story. Dubus uses the love triangle between Frank, Mary Ann, and Richard to create the idea that love can be a factor in moral blindness.
Even stars such as Kanye West made comments on these photos. He made sure that during a live broadcast of “A concert of Hurricane Relief” that he mentioned “I hate the way they portray us in the media,” he said. “You see a black family, it says they’re looting. You see a white family, it says they’re looking for food.” I feel that everyone will have their own opinions regarding their perceptions of the captions of the photos but no one will ever know the true meaning behind the words. Another great aspect of this article is that she mentioned the use of photos.
I don’t know how the government allows these people to even live, they are causing damage and pain to soldier families and to gay people, the words are so hurtful and damaging that it can even lead someone to commit suicide or kill one of their members, which they’re putting themselves and their children in danger too. It’s funny how they say there’s no tolerance or love when they’re doing
A way for indifference to end is for people to speak out about the bad things in the world. His whole acceptance speech was speaking out against many horrible topics such as the Holocaust, Israel, Apartheid, Chile, and Ethiopia. At the time there were terrible events happening and were continuing because of indifference. His speech changed the minds of and inspired many people in the world. Wiesel said, “One person — a Raoul Wallenberg, an Albert Schweitzer, Martin Luther King, Jr. — one person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death.” These civil rights activists went against so many people to end the injustices happening in their societies.
In addition to that, Christopher Columbus was uncaring and cruel. He mistreated Native Americans when they tried to be friendly to him and his crew. He killed/slaughtered many Native Americans and slaves and is responsible for one of the greatest genocides in the history of mankind. Over the years, children have been taught by their parents, teachers, textbooks that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America. A large portion of the world disagrees with that statement and argues that he, in fact, did NOT “discover” America and that he should not be credited for that.
The Spread Of Genocide Racism has conflicted many countries with catastrophic tragedies. Overtime, genocide became the given title for racial, religious, and ethnic destruction. After the Jewish Holocaust of World War II, many countries pledged to a new world without genocide; however, many recent conflicts in different countries show us that the pledge against genocide has failed. The consequences of inaction and indifference has decimated a large population of ethnic groups like the Jewish population during the Holocaust; moreover, the value of acting out against oppression and tyranny can prevent violence and evince human morality. The consequences of inaction has decimated ethnic minorities, but how did these consequences affect ethnic groups?
After they do this, the government brings in a group named the “Janjaweeds.” The Janjaweeds went through Sudan and attacked innocent villages (Genocide in Darfur United). The United Nations approached the government about their actions and they denied almost everything they did. Bashir denied ever having to do with the Janjaweeds taking over Sudan, and he called their genocide nothing but an “ ethnic cleansing (Reeves). The United Nations held conferences with refugees of Sudan, which witnessed government attacks being followed by Janjaweed attacks, proof that the government had some part to do with the Janjaweeds (BBC). Having figured this out the United Nations sent The United Nations Commission of Inquiry to investigate (More).
When Eisenhower finally did something and sent the 1,000 paratroopers, a lot of the people in America were extremely annoyed, the west and north were angry that it didn't happen sooner and the south were angry that it happened at all, and disowned Eisenhower as a southerner. Eisenhower did not do this to help the blacks, but to enforce law. The causes and consequences of the Little Rock Crisis were on international television and were a huge eye opener for the rest of the world. Because of this, countries were putting pressure on America to stop this from happening. This is possibly the turning point for the black civil rights movement in
They believe this was a right that they were given by our Four Fathers, which is clearly not true. Yes, they have the freedom of speech but when should the freedom be taken away? What about the rights of the innocent victims and their families? Hate crimes, because of their nature will always lead to violence and this is not a freedom that people should have. In my opinion, the penalties for hate crimes should continue to be more severe than that of a regular crime because so many innocent people are injured and even killed simply because they are different.
The problem is, to achieve this newfound opportunity Jackson wants to remove thousands of Indians from their settlements and move them to Oklahoma (Roark, 260). If you disregard the lives of all the Indians who were massacred for not leaving when Jackson ordered them to, I guess obtaining new land was a good thing. But it’s a bit hard for me to just ignore that harsh racism. Overall, I believe Jackson was a good President and certainly the most influential Democrat. However, in some instances I think he went too far, such as forcefully making Native Americans leave and some of the comments he made about the issue.