Summary Of Dear Trappy Europe Im Glad You Hate America

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“Dear Crappy Europe: I’m Glad You Hate America” the author of the article proclaims. Quite a bold statement to start an article with, most would agree. This particular article was pulled from the “Steven Crowder” website, known for its highly opinionated articles - many of which most would argue are more akin to rants - promoting extremely conservative views and giving social commentary. The website, as well as Crowder’s personal YouTube channel, have experienced phenomenal growth due to it’s bombastic tone and praise of more traditional views. Whether you agree with them or not, Crowder and his associates’ political bias and views shine through in their style or writing and the structure of their arguments.

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The author goes on to suggest that one of the main reasons for Europe’s ‘disgust’ is this “supposed arrogance” and the thought he gave to such. After doing some research and thinking the author comes to the conclusion that he has “zero craps to give”, brushing the issue to the side while again taking a swift dig at Europeans. He then proclaims that “we have plenty of good reasons to believe we’re [Americans are] better than Europe. Mainly, because we are”, explaining that American’s are simply living up to their perceived image and again making a rather weak joke about Europe’s supposed poor dental hygiene. Crowder unfortunately fails to convince the audience of his views, or even properly explain why we, Americans “have plenty of good reasons to believe we’re [superior]” as he has yet to provide any …show more content…
Crowder even suggest that America is responsible “for your [European’s] countries being more than mere rabbles of dust”. The author even goes as far to state that the U.S. could’ve achieved its goal of remaining a global superpower through violence with our vast assortment of weaponry. But oh, “[he’s] just getting started”. Crowder continues to praise America, both for being a leader in innovation and a ‘hero to all nations’. Again, this section fails to convey a clear point or convince any nay-sayers to revise their views. Even those in agreement with Crowder’s views may be alienated by his enlarged ego and haphazard style of writing. However, I would argue that Crowder has successfully used bomphiologia to properly emphasize a point, even if it isn’t that which the entire article is supposedly based

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