Don't you just love how politicians in both parties use rhetorical fallacies to trick us into overlooking important information. in the democratic debate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used rhetorical fallacies a decent amount. at one point during the debate she stated " I never took a position on Keystone until I took a position on Keystone" in this quote she went back on what she had just said, this was probably done to make both the people who oppose the keystone pipeline and keystone happy. This use of rhetoric really caught my eye because it made no sense almost as if clinton wanted attention drawn to it. But did her rhetoric work? Well maybe, because it hasn't really been talked about, many people are just ignoring it entirely or people are genuinely feel for the rhetoric. it is interesting to see how politicians of any position or party use rhetoric, but sometimes it stands out more than others.
In the last couple of blogs I have been talking about articles and the political debate, but we're do I get my information about the world? (Who am I asking to answer this question, how would you know what I read or watch?) Well I mainly get my information about the world from school (I know it's unoriginal but is true, I do tend to get all my political information from school and I watch the news or look at the news online. Because it's school this source tends to show multiple perspectives on a topic, but sometimes personal bias can slips in. I notice this in scenarios we evaluate in humanity's class were most of the protagonists in the scenarios tend to be female, though I don't have a problem with this I do notice it. Though a bias like that has no affect on most topics it does make me wonder what other biases teachers subconsciously include in class work. It is also interesting to think about how teachers tend to have similar likes political views like explained in the book the Great Sort were we move ourselves to areas with similar views to our own.
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