Rhetoric in Today's Society
Jeanine Pirro is a Fox News Anchor. She was told by a person who called in from Texas on live TV that her rhetoric had a part in the baby in El Paso, Texas being orphaned. The caller was referring to the way the people he mentions spread anti-immigrant hate.
The caller spoke of the rhetoric of her, Fox News, and even Donald Trump that are spreading hate in America with the words they are using. I think that this man believes that the rhetoric they use is manipulating people who are unsuspecting and are unfamiliar in the topic. Like what we talked about in class today, politicians sometimes use their rhetoric to persuade people who are poorly educated on the subject in question.
I saw this video on twitter the other day, before this class I would not have noticed the word rhetoric as much as I did when I watched the video the first time. Before this class I would not have even known what rhetoric meant, but now that I do and now that we have discussed it in class I feel I have a better understanding of american politics. It makes sense that politicians would use this helpful tool to make themselves look better, or even to make their opposition look worse.
As I research the things said by the people and network mentioned, I can now see how their rhetoric is shaping the minds of the American people. For example, the person who shot and killed twenty people and injured dozens more in El Paso wrote an anti-immigrant manifesto. Now how is this tied to Donald Trump? Well to answer this, Trump, as many people know, often uses the phrase "fake news" and in the essay the author (Patrick Crusius) said that it would be "fake news" to blame our current president for these events. He also talks of "the Hispanic invasion of Texas," a second phrase that Donald Trump regularly uses.
Whether or not you believe that our politicians and news outlets use rhetoric to manipulate the public minds, I think it is worth some of your time to go and research to see just what you can find on different topics discussed on air or in the Capitol building. It is in a way terrifying how much people just accept the words of people of power without digging for themselves.
The caller spoke of the rhetoric of her, Fox News, and even Donald Trump that are spreading hate in America with the words they are using. I think that this man believes that the rhetoric they use is manipulating people who are unsuspecting and are unfamiliar in the topic. Like what we talked about in class today, politicians sometimes use their rhetoric to persuade people who are poorly educated on the subject in question.
I saw this video on twitter the other day, before this class I would not have noticed the word rhetoric as much as I did when I watched the video the first time. Before this class I would not have even known what rhetoric meant, but now that I do and now that we have discussed it in class I feel I have a better understanding of american politics. It makes sense that politicians would use this helpful tool to make themselves look better, or even to make their opposition look worse.
As I research the things said by the people and network mentioned, I can now see how their rhetoric is shaping the minds of the American people. For example, the person who shot and killed twenty people and injured dozens more in El Paso wrote an anti-immigrant manifesto. Now how is this tied to Donald Trump? Well to answer this, Trump, as many people know, often uses the phrase "fake news" and in the essay the author (Patrick Crusius) said that it would be "fake news" to blame our current president for these events. He also talks of "the Hispanic invasion of Texas," a second phrase that Donald Trump regularly uses.
Whether or not you believe that our politicians and news outlets use rhetoric to manipulate the public minds, I think it is worth some of your time to go and research to see just what you can find on different topics discussed on air or in the Capitol building. It is in a way terrifying how much people just accept the words of people of power without digging for themselves.
I agree with the fact that if it were not for this class, I would not notice videos like these being different in anyway. I feel as if any time I see an argument on TV or anywhere, I listen in closer and see what strategies they use in the argument and also see if rhetoric is involved. I also agree with the fact that I didn't even know what rhetoric meant before this class, and now that I do know, it has changed the way I view arguments and politics.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I agree that Trump and his administration's use of rhetoric is despicable. It is often seen where Trump's messages are simplified and directed towards those less educated. This is not to say that no Trump supporters are well educated, but rather that the less educated are more easily swayed. For example, his tweet stating "It’s snowing & freezing in NYC. What the hell ever happened to global warming?". Your average educated individual knows more than enough about climate change to understand that snow is no proof that global warming and climate change don't exist.
ReplyDeleteI agree that rhetoric manipulation is used. What ever is said by the president or any political figure should include evidence and not just the fact that "it is correct because all the other news is fake " or the classic "I'm always right". Both news should show evidence or even show evidence that one is non trusting over the other.
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