Politically we live in a quite polarizing time. Between the two viable presidential candidates and an equal amount of dissatisfaction of those candidates on both sides, the fate of this country is seemingly up in the air. Though the election holds a discernable amount of media coverage and attention of the public every term the media coverage of this particular election has been dominated by the hateful rhetoric and call to violence of a particular candidate. The candidate calling for this violence is Donald Trump, he on multiple occasions has called for violence against protesters telling his audience how he would like to see them “punched or maimed”. Encouraging his supporters to do so by promising to cover their legal fees if they get arrested
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One of his earlier arguments against immigration was his accusation that Mexican immigrant men are more likely to be rapist, his research to back this claim was an article that in reality was more about the rapes and violence faced by women crossing the border rather than the perpetuators of these rapes. Effectively undermining the victims in his rhetoric the soundbite of Donald Trump’s controversial statement was played and continues to be played on almost every news station. Last month trump used the practice of honor killings in the middle east to portray Muslim men as a threat to women while also once again using the violence against women as a springboard for a separatist and xenophobic argument that depicts men of color as being inherently dangerous while excluding the victim of the crimes …show more content…
Although the 2nd Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.” With a smile he suggested to his supporters that the defense against policy change they disagree with is murder and vigilantism while the crowd cheered him on. He later recanted this statement to claim it was a joke, and meant to be funny not taken seriously. Whether or not his statement was truly meant to be a joke I am not at liberty to say. Regardless it important to acknowledge that serious or not, humor is a tool often implemented in behavioral therapy to systematically desensitize patients with phobias. The belief behind the use of humor as a tool is to get the patient or audience used to the concept of which the speaker is saying. Consciously or not the act of joking about the committing an act of violence toward another individual can have implicit consequence. Our media has covered Donald trump’s campaign more extensively than that of any other candidates a majority of this coverage focuses on his problematic statements and while it doesn’t typically support the statements he isn’t held accountable for them either. When there I no accountability for the potential real life consequence of hate speech
One of his earlier arguments against immigration was his accusation that Mexican immigrant men are more likely to be rapist, his research to back this claim was an article that in reality was more about the rapes and violence faced by women crossing the border rather than the perpetuators of these rapes. Effectively undermining the victims in his rhetoric the soundbite of Donald Trump’s controversial statement was played and continues to be played on almost every news station. Last month trump used the practice of honor killings in the middle east to portray Muslim men as a threat to women while also once again using the violence against women as a springboard for a separatist and xenophobic argument that depicts men of color as being inherently dangerous while excluding the victim of the crimes …show more content…
Although the 2nd Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.” With a smile he suggested to his supporters that the defense against policy change they disagree with is murder and vigilantism while the crowd cheered him on. He later recanted this statement to claim it was a joke, and meant to be funny not taken seriously. Whether or not his statement was truly meant to be a joke I am not at liberty to say. Regardless it important to acknowledge that serious or not, humor is a tool often implemented in behavioral therapy to systematically desensitize patients with phobias. The belief behind the use of humor as a tool is to get the patient or audience used to the concept of which the speaker is saying. Consciously or not the act of joking about the committing an act of violence toward another individual can have implicit consequence. Our media has covered Donald trump’s campaign more extensively than that of any other candidates a majority of this coverage focuses on his problematic statements and while it doesn’t typically support the statements he isn’t held accountable for them either. When there I no accountability for the potential real life consequence of hate speech