#DigitalLunch on Positive Discrimination at 1pm…
You can also join us via the event page on Google Plus…
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Books
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Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
Tweet I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and [...] read our review »
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Graphic portrayals: Northern Ireland, graphic novels and the peace process
Tweet Dr Gordon Gillespie, a researcher at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, gave a presentation on “Graphic Portrayals: Northern Ireland, Graphic Novels and the Peace Process”, at the Linen Hall Library. Gordon started with a clarification that he was going to talk about graphic novels/comic books, not cartoons, and material that [...] read our review »
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The Irish political journalist’s problem with partial disclosure…
Tweet The nod and wink politics of Ireland’s last two or three decades as practised par excellence by Bertie, Albert and Charlie is ultimately what has the Republic in the stew it’s in. Don’t get me wrong, the effective monitoring of those exercising of power does not demand full disclosure of everything all the time. [...] read our review »
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Well, I thought that was interesting… Two men one woman; two Irish, one Portuguese; and as it happens, all three of us from Catholic background..
Not sure we came to any concrete conclusions other legislation carries dangers of concretising problems from one that may invite public institutions to ignore new and rising problems…
Claudia argued that this means to egalitarian ends is in danger of missing the need to prioritise human respect over what we might call class retaliation?
There’s a sense that the legislation though it cost individual Protestant applicants opportunities they might have expected to gain in pure terms of merit, the limited term set by Patten recognised the need to create time bound rather than infinite limitation.
Also Matthew Bowler asked remotely from San Deigo in California what does ‘affirmative action’ mean in a US where it possible for a ‘brown’ person to become of the President of the United States.
There’s the added question of who is to be ‘helped’ – and how – by legal statute in a country were most of the demographics suggest its online to become a white minority in the next generation or so?
Can I say too that people are more than welcome to join the hangouts… This is not about talking heads. It’s relaxed, easy going and assumes just a little bit of seriousness about the subject under scrutiny..
What we’re actually trying to do is create a little bit of space for what it is you want to talk about… So new ideas and new contributors are always welcome…