Links to rhetorical tools:

Here are links to the rhetorical tools used in this class:

Schemes & Tropes -- Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca -- Fallacies -- Burke -- Rhetorical Toolbox -- Conspiracy Rhetorics

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Parade like we are the bad Korea..... HOOAH

“A military parade like this — one that is unduly focused on a single person — is what authoritarian regimes do, not democracies,” Mr. Smith said in a statement.
------------OVERPRECISION:occurs when an argument treats information as more precise than it really is. 
---Ok. Saying that by having a military parade thats not motivated by means like the other parades that the USA has had previously (Ex. Gulf war parade) relates --us-- (President Trump) to Authoritarian Regimes is a complete over precision. Just because this type of parade has yet to be done by the USA doesn't automatically mean that by doing it that it makes it an Authoritarian Regime. Get me? Now I think e legitimate argument here would be that our Military personnels effort and time could be better used. 


-----------------FALLACY OF THE HEAP: EX:A single grain of sand does not make a heap of sand. Also, a single grain of sand won't turn a non-heap into a heap. Therefore, there are no heaps of sand8.

By the USA having a parade that mimics what authoritarian regimes does not mean the USA an authoritarian regime. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/us/politics/trump-military-parade-america.html



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