BLM Analysis Tables

Video: Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter Supporters (social Experiment)	Rhetorical Devices Meiosis: Diminishing the importance of something by using a disproportionate name	Quote: There were two sides where the Black Lives Matter sign was used and then a All Lives Matter sign was used. Both of these signs got different reactions one of showing really no care for it and then the other being enraged by it.	Analysis: It showed that by changing just one word on a sign could push people to the edge where African Americans were chasing after the man because he had a All Lives Matter sign, while with the Black Lives Matter sign there was really no emotion or real movement to speak on the movement.
Author/creator: Joey Salads	Fallacies: Emotional Appeal: Something is true because it makes us feel good or untrue because it doesn’t	Quote: The emotions of both signs differ, one showing no emotion accusing the Black Lives Matter movement as being fake and then the All Lives Matter movement which angered African Americans which saw it as wrong and discrediting the Black Lives Matter movement.	Analysis: Emotions ran deep depending on how the individual felt with what the movement stood for which both sides saw this movements as being a fake and that they should represent the exact opposite.
	Perelman Arguments: Incompatibility: Apparent incompatibility of propositions	Quote: The signs are incapable of capturing what the two sides were arguing for in the social experiment, one wanting more for Black Lives and then the other wanted to represent All Lives matter.	Analysis: The propositions made by these signs are incompatible with the mindsets of the two control groups within this experiment but if he was to switch the signs the groups would agree completely.

Press: The New Yorker, The Matter of Black Lives	Rhetorical Devices Epitrope: A pretend concession	Quotes: “She posted a statement online in which she said that she “could not, with any integrity, participate in such a sham that would only serve to legitimize the false narrative that the government is working to end police brutality and the institutional racism that fuels it.”	Analysis: Aislinn Pulley a community organizer helps state why this movement is so different from the earlier civil rights movements, showing that they stray from hierarchy and centralized leadership making it difficult for everyone to be on the same page and hold the same values but also allows for other ideas of equality and rights to be shared in a more individual especially through one’s opinions and views.
Author/creator: Jelani Cobb	Fallacies: Appeal to misleading authority (w/Appeal to Celebrity & Appeal to tradition): Using an authority to affirm a conclusion when the authority is not expert enough, in the context, to assure the conclusion	Quote: “while Black Lives Matter’s insistent outsider status has allowed it to shape the dialogue surrounding race and criminal justice in this country, it has also sparked a debate about the limits of protest, particularly of online activism.	Analysis: The movement as a whole is trying to gain authority in the sphere of civil rights but due to the ever changing ideas and members especially on social media it makes it difficult to understand where the movement is going and how much authority they have in tackling civil rights issues.
	Perelman Arguments: Philosophical: Reduction of definition to facts	Quotes: “#BlackLivesMatter. Garza sometimes writes haiku—she admires the economy of the form—and in those four syllables she recognized a distillation not only of the anger that attended Zimmerman’s acquittal but also of the animating principle at the core of black social movements dating back more than a century.”	Analysis: The hashtag is more than just four syllables now, it has more meanings than anyone can imagine. Due to the use of social media this hashtag has made it so difficult to define what the Black Lives Matter movement is all about and it’s goals. The thing is you can put a true definition to it but only think of what it could mean to you and apply it. This hashtag helps explain the issue of the ever changing ideas of Black Lives Matter.

Social Media: Copwatch	Rhetorical Devices: Epizeuxis: Repetition of one word	Quotes: “Cops” “NYPD” “Police”	Analysis: These words are used repeatedly in the majority of the tweets putting a emphasis on the cops or the police being the reason for whatever is talked about. Showing that these cops and police won’t stop so they must be stopped.
Author/Creator: @Copwatch	Fallacies: Appeal to consequences: A proposition is true because belief in it leads to good things or it is untrue because that belief will lead to bad things	Quotes: “The cops watch us. We get cameras to watch the cops.”	Analysis: The idea that if cops are there to watch us and keep the peace then who is watching the cops to make sure they are doing it for the peace for all. They watch us so we should watch them, the idea is for it to go full circle in the idea of equal justice.
	Perelman Arguments: Contagion: Propagation where A is already bad	Quotes: “Blood at the Roots.” “#ShutItDown”	Analysis: The idea of this page is built upon this showing that police brutality has been happening for a long time and it is time for it to stop and by bringing awareness to filming police it allows for people to have some security in protecting themselves against this ever present danger.