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Published: 2017-09-08
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWUZVIwQxHQ
so what junior famously said that you are world universities law but effects for its just he was still raise the activists in the United States arrival in this one and what he meant by the part of the moral universe is the way that society progresses over time research quality what he meant by this is rather social change the world that we live in will someday be
a better place this call is a really great rallying call because it helps people feel like their efforts to me World Bank you know and it gives us hope for the future that we will live in and our children and grand but I'm here today to talk about I think that the world is on a slow but steady March towards justice can be harmed so those
of you know like when this photo was taken during the twenty fourteen cry as partisan these riots began as a peaceful protest outside the murder of another which was brought who was shot and killed walking home at night railway police officer so during the ensuing violence of the Ryan spinning brought a relatively well informed and socially conscious people said they might it's as though it's taken
a step back fifty years include US history and what this might mean to you by this was that of a step back to these threats in nineteen sixty five in Selma Alabama the similarities between the two are straight sela waivers and began as a peaceful protest after the murder of an arms length away things are really Jackson who was shot and killed in our restaurants near
his home and the similarities are striking because the violence and magnitude of the responses occurred only after the police attempt to disperse the crowds using tear gas and water cannons described but the problem with calling for isn't a step back fifty years since US of straight is that it suggests but in the interim nothing terrible has happened it ignores the fact that policemen in the United
States are estimated to kill someone every seven hours and these people are three times more likely to be plowed into me right and according to the blood of mapping police violence database only thirty percent of cases in which we bill Greg police are they haven up I even thought powerful weapon or accused of a violent crime so what we call some I stepped back into U.
S. history we are ignoring the past fifty years of violence and greed ability but just like the Americans are so unity is all over the United States they are ignoring hospital years of the lease murdering on arms black mountain boys so then what does it mean to move backwards generally as westerners I was section of a society that has moved backwards is one in which social
liberties that have been game for social movement our first heard these can be legal policies lay aside into giving women the right to vote taken the prospect right but they can also be social norms later in society and that it had started accepting limited government stop voting for female representatives however many of the societies that we consider to be backwards are just not moving at the
same pace as the side of the house they have been granted those rates to minority groups and women to take there is about using air throats when I say you moving at the same pace and progress and gosh this is the fifth good is the fattest because almost all of the language that we have to describe a social movement has to go with linear progression so
many of progression is basically that movement from playing games and playing be with their interests and in this case it's referring to the moving of a society an apology to the quality over time incident with progress getting only better for people and never getting worse and another issue will be looking at societies as moving forwards is that generally are processed where is is becoming more democratic
more industrial and more westerners but rather than being a linear spectrum societies tend to fluctuate between equality of equality over time for example we we generally look out of class early had Madeleine twenty seven team living without electricity running water or modern forms tuition in a rural area I living as though he is in but I think we can all accept the yearly lives and is
still twenty some the way we experience time is linear the way that we experienced social progress rather than sought relief this it's complicated it's messy and it doesn't have a specific direction because moves holiday in a so if you're actually concept of moving can anyone tell me where they think these photos were taken the Saddam be your own days good idea dispose were taken in Iraq
during the nineteen thirties to the nineteen seventies and here are some pictures of your last name there are obviously areas of these voters to suit right now there were of course people in and during the time of the first ever taken who observes much more traditional Islamic with the dress American in Iran today who's not wearing a head start on outside of their own home and
whose face you would consider to be from the west but the fact is that governor political correctness of these two time periods are incredibly different so these motors were taken and what is referred to Avalon beer it began in the early nineteen thirties from present shop lobby came into power in Iran and even instituted a number of policies men to bring Iranian culture Tories westernization and
now if all no these policies good or bad how long the host had skirts and they gave women many races in government raising marriage sleepy village suppliers to take Erica children how fast I need just all of these things robin interrupts her well status and citing a smack during the nineteen seventy nine Islamic revolution however women lost many the race of the game women to this
day are not all of our for example they leave their own I mean how she feels no rights and marriage we cannot ask for a divorce initiate a marriage how velocity over their children or even leave the country without her husband's from I recently found out that it's occurring %HESITATION issue in Iran with women trying to regain the rates sporting events of course over the past
forty years since the revolution women have gained about many of the rights they lost a jury here is okay I know women still working in their own states move the missiles in their direction you would consider for but Iran is still a strong example of a society that we as a resident is being considered to be a person is not the first time in history that
we would consider to have friends have moved backward in terms of gay as planned gaining and losing my relatively during World parts one and two women were forced to actually work for I agree because men but we're dropping into the army and these women were able to take over jobs that have historically belong to men like reading military operation and call centers and factories participating in
government and taking care of their children along with David rates to proper however after the war ended many of these same women were fired from their jobs to make space for bell workers are paid far less than the men who are doing the same job as if they were and this is still an issue especially in the United States today remains happens that a woman made
seventy five cents stop our the issue of looking have time and social movement as linear as a progression from pain to be is not only in that it allows to ignore societies that don't necessarily the way that we think they showed but it also allows us the ignorance of humanitarian crises that is still an issue outside of where they are relevant so Simon Doonan through is
a facet designer and state hearings are service in the United States famously satellites to those of you who were not around I can only say this you have no idea how lucky he was referring to what I call the aids crisis of the nineteen a dozen young gay teenager in the United States I learned about the aids crisis in a very specific and limited way my
story of the eight HIV aids crisis began in nineteen eighty one for the first five cases reported in the United States called gave no Monia or alternatively if gay cancer by nineteen eighty five every region in the world was reporting back east one case of HIV and it wasn't until nineteen eighty eight United States partly open a program for dealing with the virus by nineteen ninety
five nearly ten years after it became a worldwide crisis the first anti retroviral therapy was approved and a year later the United Nations formed committees on the prevention of and that's it that's the end of the story is I never it was something to be looked back to be sad about to remember our struggle but the fact is that we here in Swaziland are living in
the middle of an aids crisis today Democrats river we all live in thirty over thirty percent of the population is infected with HIV it is the fact is that the story didn't actually and in nineteen ninety six with the formation of you any ID it continues and that's what I mean I when aids became the number one killer of the African constants but sixteen thousand new
infections every single day in twenty sixteen estimated that eighteen point two million our for our on air he's worldwide and that was only fifty four percent of the people eligible for treatment because we as a global community often look at issues that are solved our areas of the world as fixed it is easy to ignore other people's still struggle and this is in part because we
can't just look across the globe you know we don't see everything that's going on but it is mainly because the social movements are rarely inspection groups advocating their own needs at all I don't recognize our players highways struggles with others an example of this zero here here's my heart disease year women's suffrage movement and stays close other than to get out of the eighteen nineties the
nineteen women of color were systemically excluded as many of those suffragettes ride runs through my head use the fiberglass men can go as a reason for why women should be able to Anna Howard Shaw who is president of the national women's association and until very recently one of my heroes famously said I've seen women overworked and underpaid during mass jobs that happens wages not because their
work is inferior but because they were women yeah I recently found out a series of the same person is that you've put the ballot into the hands of your black man thus making him the political superior overweight women never before in the history of the world of men made former slaves the political of their former Mister yeah and even earlier when I said that a woman
in the U. S. make seventy five cents caller I was of course a very today a white woman seventy five cents to the white man's dollar everywhere have median earnings knife in terms of looking at the wage gap by race across the globe and you can see the Asian men who but white men so maybe more than Asian women you make more than white women who
make more than a black man and so forth and so on so how can we move forwards in the society I would think towards justice the deciding where many consider the rights and progress of others to be less important than for even harmful tobacco this mentality is particularly dangerous in the ghettos leaders like your body Americanizing steeple I'm hoping you zero %HESITATION appear while others who
is the leader of the Dallas Harding for freedom I know you know hands I'm in here about the French National Front party I don't harmonize former leader of the UK Independence Party and of course Donald surrounds the current Republican leader of the United States government there are many of us are unfamiliar with the grand prize of spouses though within the western over the past year alone
conservatives across the United States and western Europe have games considerably and power and scratch and I think no little heart do sorry so the refugee crisis ongoing and is it no little Hardenberg Francisco my parties made of those I because the fact is that these conservatives we party names like freedom national friends and indeed peddling from a separation isolationism from the rest of the world their
policies laid residents and America first we seek to fathers in a phobia one o'clock out migrants and refugees because of mistrust among minority groups it is one of the oldest and most disgusting political strategies in the book people in power who don't want to lose the top seeds our data anywhere against social progress convinced minority groups the only one finance and the cost of the rest
and it is surprising how often the small amount how much we were me think that progress is linear and individual I did take up trash in the world or the universe one of the most critical reasons we believe that the world is on a steady state to get better is because it allows us to be complacent it allows us to focus on our own interests on
issues many scientists were relevant to our own lives because we think that no matter what if we push for what we believe and the whole world just enough room in the same direction where eventually got a whole lot of justice but the fact is the moral article universes nonfinancial it's just is pushed out there is nothing wrong with being gay that the world will eventually be
a better place but it is necessary to recognize that without an integrated into such small have sustained approach things will not get better on the we must not fear it is pretty safe perspective all scientists move in the same direction at the same pace an amazing time if we want the world to be lives Bedford's justice we have to take it back figure it'll
