am I really not writing polisci?

Sep 26, 2007 22:42

The Emancipation Proclaimation only freed the slaves in the slave-states that seceded from the Union. The Nuremberg Tribunal was an illegitimately constructed court with no real jurisdiction, and on such shaky foundations it could not risk a revolutionary verdict outside past legal precedent; as a result, only the actions Hitler's regime took against Jews, gays, dissenters, and Gypsies after the invasion were recognized as crimes. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights nowhere recognizes the right to self determination as Britain's 1948 colonial holdings would have kept it from signing. Compulsory labor and prison camps are allowed under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as long as people are sent there by a "competant court."

Those shining moments in history will either blind you or turn to glare and make you cry.

By my senior year, Macalester will offer a Human Rights and Humanitarianism concentration. Counting Ethics and assuming it's another 20 credit deal, I'm arguably one class away by the end of this year. It could be my concentration within IS, but since it's not official, no one knows what exactly the concentration will require or if IS will accept it. I either bet graduating on time or continue juggling IS, PoliSci, and Anthro. At least there are apparently dozens of students in my predicament.

If Iran does not have the phenomenon of homosexuality, does that mean homosexuals are phenomenal? (Answer: Yes, in bed.)

Quote: "You know what pisses me off about AIDS? Not the humanitarian aspect, the fact that it has 8 genes and I have 110. I'm smarter than you, dammit!" (science tutor and coworker) It started off as a discussion of House and how said coworker shares his love for scientific puzzles and general disdain for people.

academia, human rights

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