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Case #10: The Tendeloo Resolution
The Dutch law stated until 1956 that females working for the government lost their jobs when they got married. Moreover, all women had to ask their husbands for permission to travel and to buy new clothes. As a Dutch magazine noted in 1949: “For a husband it is very difficult to stay home all day to pay the milkman and baker. He has something better to do.” Were these people stupid?
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Case #11: The Comic Book Ban
Read the different strips. That is racism, is it not? The black people are depicted as stupid and European people as civilized. Should these comic books not be banned? Is it normal that you can buy these books in shops? What will young readers think when they read these comic books?
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