Analysis Of Are Campus Activist Too Dogmatic By Victor Tan Chen

In Victor Tan Chen article, on “Are Campus Activist Too Dogmatic”, many points were made, however was not followed by a valid argument. In his article, he discussed how college activist is a nuisance to society in a way that targets liberals. Chen never seems to emphasize in his article the reasons for the campus activists protest, yet includes the fact that their protest is highly severe. In other words, Chen’s article is almost dismissive to the whole point of the student protesters furthermore, describing their actions as being useless in its entirety even with them tackling issues like racism and sexism. It is a total disregard of your first amendment right, abridging the right to freedom of speech in this country in a logical …show more content…
Chen states that, campus activist “alienated the uninitiated with their join-us-or-else self-righteousness”, which is not true and he provides no factual evidence to support this claim. Chen then reverts to the 1960s, with the “New Left” cultural warriors who became influential in leading the country into a different path, one strongly against the American society and principles. By including these facts in his article, Chen is using logos to appeal to the audience and prove that the campus activist did not follow through with the new “egalitarian economic agenda and savvy political strategizing.” However, by him staying that her does not includes ways that they can stop deterring from the “New Left” and spark some actual change. Chen article, is filled of a list of things that these campus activists are doing wrong, with out seeing the true meaning behind it. Which almost leads you to the assumption of thinking that he wrote this article simple because he was annoyed with campus activist and thought their actions served no …show more content…
Whether it maybe campus activist or regular people protesting some issue there moral or religious beliefs are always going to have some part in it. Especially, now that information is so easily accessible, and people’s opinions are openly heard. Which is there right given to us by the U.S constitution signed by some of our founding fathers. Chen approach towards his audience/ readers should have been more developed and evidence based. His entire article sets a tone of harness and hatred towards campus activist. Therefore, caused his article to lack in effectiveness throughout in really trying to advocate his point for the readers to understand. Lastly, even though Chen’s article show some effect of logos, in all is lacked credibility which puts in to question the whole point of him writing the