Guest Lecture: "Insurrectionist Ethics: Boldly Confronting Oppression"
In the United States, many are inculcated with a faith in democracy. Many believe that social amelioration is only achieved through civil discourse and legal procedures--for the alternatives are destructive and irrational. While McBride may concede that "the cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy," he worries that platitudinous appeals to Pollyannaish notions of democracy and civility often confine oppressed people to collegial, moral suasionist approaches to social amelioration.