civil rights theme

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression. Such rights issues are discussed explicitly, or very pointedly illustrated.

Notes

This theme does not apply to isolated occurrences of racism, but should be used when a systematic oppression of a category of people is clearly featured.

Examples

In futurama6x12 "The Mutants Are Revolting", we saw how the sewer mutants were prevented from participating in the normal civil and political life of New New York because people saw them as sub-human scum that must stay hidden in the sewers.

8 total · 4 major · 4 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
futurama6x12	major	The sewer mutants were discriminated against on account of their sub-human class.
tz2002e1x26	major	Although it was not spelled out, the viewer is confronted with Marvin being harassed by the police because of his skin color.
tz2002e1x32	major	The story is set in Memphis in the midst of the civil rights movement.
tz2019e1x03	major	The racist cop was offended by Nina's apparent success, seeing her new car, and her son Dorian's aspirations to get into college, so he took it upon himself to make correction, later joined by two other colleagues
ds97x15	minor	Benjamin explained about how the Civil Rights movement was just in its infancy in 1962 America, and how black people had a lot of trouble getting around in that time and place.
ftt1982e6x01	minor	There was a pointed exchange regarding how black people had no vote.
futurama1x05	minor	Bender was advocating robot rights.
rd1988e2x06	minor	Deb Lister mentioned about how the men of her universe had fought for equal rights back in the 1960s.