A War on Black People or Drugs
For this unit of Forbidden Books we focused censorship of books. Censorship is the act of silencing content that you don't agree with. most people censor content that are in direct completion with their morals. Tor most of the class we used Socrates as an example of how the Athenian government censored him. luckily his teaching were written down and preserved. after his death his philosophy effected western philosophy. one of the things that he invented is the Socratic dialog were you question someone to get to the point of someones opinion. here is an example: Character #1: As I was saying, the war on drugs was Nixon trying to throw black men into jail. Character #2:Um excuse me, I believe that the 1970s-80s War on Drugs was not a war on Black people. You must be crazy. #1: You don’t think the War on Drugs was an attack on black people? #2: I believe that it’s a war on drugs because there was a problem with drugs, and it needed to be controlled. ...