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Tim Wise’s article contains a lot of emotion and it is though the clever tactic of appealing to Logos and Pathos that Wise makes the reader really consider what he is speaking about. There is even an ethos aspect to his argument. Since Wise is a white man shaming his own race, this removes bias which in turn gives him credibility. Now to examine the Logos aspect of his argument. By using the statistic “in past two years, thirty-two young men have either carried out a mass school shooting or attempted to do so, and of these thirty-two, thirty were white teens,” Wise is using the logos aspect of a claim to really make the reader consider the gravity of the situation and take into consideration his appeal to begin profiling these kids (69).
The National Post media representation of Bissonnette entitled “Alexander Bissonnette Charged with Six Counts of Murder” uses Bissonnette’s whiteness as a focus of the article through description and imagery in a way that establishes a racial hierarchy (Satzewich and Zong 1996), through which Bissonnette is partially absolved of his culpability because he belongs at the top of the hierarchy. The article focuses on elements of Bissonnette’s life that signify whiteness in order to partially absolve him of guilt in the minds of the readers, such as his accomplishments in higher education, a patriotic member of the Canadian Armed Forces (National Post 2017), and white friends and family who vouch that Bissonnette “...was not necessarily overtly racist or Islamophobic...did not suffer from any mental illness....and didn't think he was part of an organized extremist group either” (Boissonneault, National Post 2017). This implicitly puts Bissonnette at the top of the racial hierarchy and is therefore invulnerable to stigmatized forms of crime such as
Every time you look at the news there seems to be a new headline about the most recent mass shooting. With these shootings becoming more common many viewers are becoming desensitized making these murders in cold blood seem normal. In the article Broken Cannot Be the New Normal published in The Avion the author Victoria Jordan tries to persuade the readers that change needs to be made so that we as a society do not have to live in fear of being the victim of the next massacre. Although Jordan takes a stance on gun violence, her over-use of fallacies such as appeal to fear and pity as well as begging the question the left the article with inadequate evidence in addition she barely offers a solution to the problem that she clearly sees. While appeal to emotion can be an effective method to connect with your audience, Jordan however overuses emotion to the point it
In the years since the SHES massacre, many of the victims’ families and others involved in the shooting have received harassment. The father of the youngest victim, Leonard Pozner, and his family “received hate-filled calls and violent emails from people who say they know the shooting was a hoax” (Demick). Recently, several people have been arrested due to their harassment, such as a woman in Florida who was arrested with “making death threats against Pozner, with repeated phone calls to his home in which she muttered ethnic and racial slurs and profanities” (Demick). These instances of harassment contradict the statistic that belief in the conspiracy theories has decreased. In the most recent survey conducted by PublicMind in 2016, only eight percent of those surveyed agree that the government was involved in the SHES shooting (Cassino).
Wendy Chan and Dorthy Chunns “Media Representations of Race, Crime and Criminal Justice” provides not only a retelling of violent crimes and how the white media depicts such acts in order to fit the “white is right” narrative but critically engages and analyzes the ways in which these media depictions negatively harm minorities in Canada. This piece is filled with opinions, facts and queries that all engage with the relationship between crime, media representation and intersectionality. The most interesting sections from the reading are; newsworthiness and crime reporting, the symbiotic relationship between police and journalists and the erosion of the line between fact and fiction in relation to the spectacle that is criminal justice. Media
In the second article Mark Peffrey and Jon Hurwitz (1997) expres public perceptions of crime and the role stereotyping can affect the way people think. This article focuses more on the negative ways people of colour are perceived when it comes to crime, unfortunately till this day, this can still be an issue. The writers speak on how society has unfortunately suffered from how black people are more likely than whites to be seen as criminal suspects and also more likely portrayed as physically threatening which is noted by Jamieson (1992). There are a variety of opinions on this, when negative stereotyping like this occurs it can never be considered as a good thing for the world, and the fact that the media plays such a huge role in this is
When it comes to race and class struggles, there is always a debate. On May 1992, the city of Los Angeles witnessed an uprise in its citizens. Following the acquittal of four police office in the beating of a black man, riots began to breakout in the city. Looking at the different media coverages around that time, there are noticeable differences in their coverages and how class is used to describe the incidents. In this paper I will analyze how, through the use of imagery, word choices such as ‘rioters’, and the shifting of blame, the media played a significant role through their coverages in the King Trial, and ultimately the LA Riots of 1992.
When the best friend blames the girl for the actions of her country, it illustrates how America derogated Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the following events after 9/11, Canada made efforts to be more cautious by questioning its citizens and having a heightened suspicion towards them. According to Janil and Rousseau, Canada’s actions were associated with an internalization of fear (371). The nation did not trust its citizens, and as a result, the country judged its citizens by their race (Janil and Rousseau 383, 386). Generally speaking, a person’s thoughts, decisions, and views towards others are based on fear, and fear from acts of terror and war can incite a powerful country to make assumptions, raise suspicions, and perpetuate stereotyping.
While a fair number of Kimmel’s observations about this new demographic are depressingly familiar, he warns that the dangers created by disgruntled guys will rise the longer we tolerate, brush off and deny their bad behavior. “The stakes are higher, the violence more extreme, the weapons more lethal,” Kimmel writes. School shootings, a relatively new phenomenon, are increasing. This is evident jumping back to earlier in the semester when we discussed Lisa Wade’s, “The ‘Benevolent Sexism’ Behind Dylan Roof’s Racism,” article where kids like Dylan Roof, Adam Lanza, and many more used violence to fuel to fuel their hate, and commit heinous acts of terror. These are just some resent acts of violence that Kimmel is conveying to us in
The racial profiling that had occurred the night of the murder indicates the way the media triggers this mentality of condoning the rash judgements and portraying the police officer of being right for mistakenly assuming that the hairbrush Khalil had was a weapon and justifying the amount of shots the officer made against the teen. The media presented his race and the environment Khalil had resided in to being the reasons behind the actions
The media misrepresents Khalil by portraying him as a drug dealer and gang member without any evidence to support the claims. A passage that illustrates this inaccurate portal of Khalil is, “On the Monday night news, they finally gave Khalil’s name in the story about the shooting, but with the title added to it----Khalil Harris a Suspected Drug Dealer. They didn’t mention that he was unarmed” (Thomas 104). The continuous injustices experienced by communities of colour are increased by the biased reporting of the media, which created negative stereotypes and systemic biases. Also, the comment emphasizes the news report's obvious exclusion of information related to the situation.
For anyone looking for clear evidence of the implicit racial biases and obvious disparities in the perception of the Black community when compared to their white counterparts, they hardly need to look any further than two motorcycle festivals that take over South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach every summer .Gene Demby, Lead Blogger for npr.org, authored, “2 Biker Rallies: One White, One Black-One ‘Badass’, The Other, Just ‘Bad”, is an article about how the media portrays groups of bikers different. Demby argues, that there is a considerable difference between how white bikers and black bikers portrayed thru the media. I agree with Demby, for instance, with what took place in Waco, Texas, where nine people were killed in a violent biker gang shootout.
Introduction In America, media overwhelmingly gives the perception that many immigrants are criminals, and focuses on immigration in a negative manner. This portrayal by the media shapes the American public’s perception of immigrants and crime. This media uses the idea of “if it bleeds, it leads,” which makes it mainly focus on negative stories in order to capture and keep an audience. This tends to portray immigrants and immigration in a negative light, even though Criminologists know from research that immigrants are less likely to commit crime than American born citizens.
Living in the East Vancouver, I have grown to be aware of people who seem dangerous. I live in a contrasting neighbourhood of wealth and poverty, just like in the essay where “Hyde
“You’re watching television, you’re watching the news; you’re being pumped full of fear… and it’s just a campaign of fear and consumption. That’s what I think it’s all based on is the whole idea that keep everyone afraid and they’ll consume. And that’s really simple.” (Bowling). Mass murders occur throughout the world and affect every race and gender.