1. Political Dissent & RSA
SSE Riga Debate Society

2. Types of Dissent

3. LEGAL PROTEST
RULE DEPARTURE
CONSCINETIOUS OBJECTION
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
RADICAL PROTEST
REVOLUTIONARY ACTION

4. IMMORAL LAW CANNOT BE MORALLY BINDING
Justification
IMMORAL LAW CANNOT BE MORALLY BINDING
What’s bad about dissent?
Offense
Divisiveness
Encouradges disrespect for the law (the social consensus)
Actual violnece/fear/uncertainty

5. IMMORAL LAW CANNOT BE MORALLY BINDING
Justification
IMMORAL LAW CANNOT BE MORALLY BINDING
What level of dissent is justified?
Proportionality (the punishment view)
Minimum harm/ no alternative
Probability of success (is more violence allowable if it attracts internac. Media attention?)
Right motivation

6. Suppression of Dissent

7. Suppression of Dissent
Immedeate:
Outlawing types of dissent that are usually legal
Outlawing certain movements
Enforcement
Through violence (leads to escalation)
Imprisonment (or wose)
Spreading misinformaton

8. Suppression of Dissent
Long term:
GOAL: EXCLUSION FROM POWER STRUCTURES/OPRESSION
Segregation/ perpetuating ‘otherness’
Education (propoganda, quality)
Media narratives
Work opportunities (including political office)

9. RSA (Republic of South Africa)

10. SA history Multiethnic society, 11 official languages
Dutch arrive 1652
Brits arrive 1795
Both sides fight against each other till 1910 (UK wins) form a unified South Africa
Both sides were oppressive towards locals through all the time
87% of land for whites (20% of pop)

11. Apartheid National Party comes to power in 1948
4 groups: “white”, “black”, “colored”, “Indian”
Gov: segregated education, medical care, beaches, living place, marriage & relationships, public services, freedom of speech
Scientific racism

12. What I directly stole from Stephanie
: quiet suppression
s: violent suppression and start of successful resistance (Sharpville massacre, 1960), (Soweto uprising, 1978)
1980s: ungovernably and worldwide condemnation of apartheid
Early 1990s: African National Congress (ANC) unbanned, Nelson Mandela freed
1994: 1st free & fair elections
1994-… ANC on power

13. Social movements
Treatment action campaign
Equal education …

15. Stehpanie’s video