#FreeSpeech is dead

https://newstarget.com/2023-09-08-owen-shroyer-jail-time-rhetoric-stolen-election.html

#OwenShroyer #insurrection #rhetoric

#FreeSpeech is dead

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-09-08-owen-shroyer-jail-time-rhetoric-stolen-election.html

#OwenShroyer #insurrection #rhetoric

“We condemn the killer’s actions in the strongest possible terms” is a case where the performative language excuses one from the task of having to find strong and meaningful terms. It’s an anti-rhetorical cheat. Imagine if I wrote an essay and, instead of a conclusion, just said “I conclude my essay with a cogent summation of what has gone before and an original flourish that leaves the reader shaken and stirred by its brilliance.” #politics #rhetoric

Make your communication so simple that Ralph Wiggum cant misunderstand it.

#Rhetoric

The fact that #Ramaswamy believes he can pull #Russia out of an alliance with #China is all the #evidence we need that he's not a serious #candidate worth considering. That sort of lofty #rhetoric may convince the credulous rubes that make up the #Republican base, but it's absurd nonsense to anyone with an even basic understanding of the situation and dynamics at play. Why is the #media pretending this guy is a legitimate option?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vivek-ramaswamy-kaitlan-collins_n_64e47d86e4b07db68195d378

The Department of Rhetoric at the University of Berkeley (#UCBerkeley) is recruiting an "Assistant Professor - Rhetoric of Global Imaginaries of Race or Environmental Rhetoric".

🗓️Deadline for Applications: September 26, 2023

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/job/assistant-professor-rhetoric-of-global-imaginaries-of-race-or-environmental-rhetoric-department/ #fidavlnews #ecocriticsm #race #postcolonial @litstudies #Rhetoric

I'd like to see someone ask #MarjorieTraitorGreene to define #communism. But she only appears on hyper-friendly, #rightwing shows that would never ask her anything other than pre-approved softballs. It's clear from her ridiculous #rhetoric that she is either #ignorant of what communism is, or she's intentionally misusing the term for #propaganda purposes. I think both possibilities are equally likely.

https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-arizona-2664148382

On the vogue #word “weaponize,” a #metaphor for the word “politicize,” and the birth of other words with the I Z E ending that changed them from #nouns to #verbs #language #rhetoric
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/15/overusing-word-weaponize/

"The leech gets the reach"

"The bleach gets the leash"

#rhetoric #ADL #TeamJew

designer #YidCant

'lawful but awful'

'freedom of speech, not freedom of reach'

#rhetoric

i will make homirrhea happen. but you can help.

#rhetoric

The term ( or #phrase or #language) “sex work” / “sex worker” whitewashes economic constraints, family ruptures and sordid circumstances. A discussion about #euphemisms for prostitution and human trafficking. #linguistics #rhetoric https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/opinion/prostitution-sex-work.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Someone needs to sit #Nimrata down and explain to her what #communism is, because she is clearly very confused. That sort of absurd #rhetoric may work on the tragically #uneducated #MAGA #cult, but most #Americans are not #dumb. Most Americans have at least a passing understanding of what communism is. This is what happens when your base is made up of the dumbest people on the planet.

https://www.alternet.org/amp/nikki-haley-marjorie-taylor-greene-2663938317

"farm murders" - it's like whiteskins have a negative instinct for language. farm murders is just another anti-white euph-evasion like bad neighborhoods or gun crime.

#rhetoric

I always get a kick out of people who ask the exact right question, rhetorically, when the literal answer is squarely the one needed to counter their stance.

Case in point, a clip of #Trump stumping with, “How can [they] put me on trial during an election campaign[..]?”

Well, sure, sir, let’s walk you through how the judicial process works in the US, since it sounds like you could use a review, and then cover how your own choices opened you up to that process.

That should be a pretty complete answer to “How?” … thanks for asking.

But mainly, I think I’ve heard lawyers say to never ask a witness a question when you’re not positive the answer would support your case.
It’s good advice in general.

#USPolitics #rhetoric

The #workshop "The #Tropes of Theory" is being held at the #Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (#zflkomm) in Berlin on October 20 and 21, 2023.

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/event/the-tropes-of-theory/ #LiteraryTheory #AVL #Poetics #Rhetoric #Aesthetics #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies

#CfP for the #panel "'Carried Down to Wondrous Depths': #Meaning and #Metaphor in #Moby Dick", which will take place at the Northeast Modern Languages Association (#NeMLA #northeastMLA) convention in Boston on March 7-10, 2024.

🗓️Deadline for Abstracts: September 30, 2023

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/carried-down-to-wondrous-depths-meaning-and-metaphor-in-moby-dick-nemla-2024-boston/ #fidavlnews @litstudies #Rhetoric #Hermeneutics #AVL

The difference between the #words & #rhetoric of “still” and “again,” and of course the distinctions between the men who use them https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/opinion/biden-trump-political-rhetoric.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Prosecutors in the Trump cases will soon run up against the #epistemological challenges of explaining, convicting a man whose behavior (& #language & #rhetoric) defies & undermines the structures and logic of civic life. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/trump-indictment-fraud.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Here's a short from one of my class sessions on Plato's Symposium, this one looking at Agathon's very nicely constructed rhetorical speech, and asking: do his arguments about Love really hold up?

https://youtube.com/shorts/FnUQ3OkuSyQ
#Short #Plato #Symposium #Speech #Love #Rhetoric #Argument