Both Johnson and Dyson’s essays explain and example of how a group of people are stereotyped and how media influences others to view them. Those being stereotyped in the two essays are disabled people and African Americans. The ones stereotyping a group of people have no insight on who those people really are and are simply making assumptions based on appearance. Social media is widely popular and because of it, different stereotypes and discrimination are spread. Johnson shares her experience of being disabled and her debate against a man named Peter Singer, who believes disabled newborn babies should be killed. Johnson, being disabled herself, decides to speak with Singer in front of a University class to try to change his views and influence
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For one, the two groups are different, one being disabilities and the other of skin color and race. For Johnson’s it is about the disabled having a life or death debate and Dyson’s, the African Americans being seen as savages and thugs. For the disabled, they are oppressed because people suspect them of not being happy for looking different and their lives should be ended. It is whether disabled lives have any value. African Americans is a matter of image of who they are, a discriminating image that they are “menaces”. False images of black victims spread by media after a natural disaster. Another difference is Johnson’s experience of debate and Dyson’s is experience of natural disaster. Johnson’s essay revolved around her meeting with Peter Singer, a man with controversial views, while Dyson’s was how the media described black victims of Hurricane Katrina and what he personally …show more content…
Disabled people are viewed with a sense of sympathy. Johnson states “Strangers on the street are moved to comment: I admire you for being out; most people would have given up. God bless you! I’ll pray for you. You don’t let pain hold you back, do you? If I had to live like you, I think I’d kill myself”(120). These comments from strangers imply that they feel bad for Johnson and the disability she lives with, that they feel the need to comment. But in Dyson’s essay African Americans are seen more with dislike or hate. Dyson stated “No adjective or metaphor seemed alien to reporters seeking to adequately conjure the chaos of blackness being unleashed on the world in all of its despotic wizardry and evil inventiveness”(154). Dyson means that reporters wrote anything to get more popular by writing about fixed images of African Americans. Instead of sympathy, most American Americans had to deal with dislike and/or hate.
In conclusion, Dyson’s and Johnson’s essay deal with the connection between the media and oppression against people who are socially categorized. Both stereotypes were spread by the media. The two groups were treated and thought of as different because of the fixed images being disseminated. Those images being of false assumptions and spread and led to mistreatment of the ones being targeted. Even though the two essays have their differences, they
For one, the two groups are different, one being disabilities and the other of skin color and race. For Johnson’s it is about the disabled having a life or death debate and Dyson’s, the African Americans being seen as savages and thugs. For the disabled, they are oppressed because people suspect them of not being happy for looking different and their lives should be ended. It is whether disabled lives have any value. African Americans is a matter of image of who they are, a discriminating image that they are “menaces”. False images of black victims spread by media after a natural disaster. Another difference is Johnson’s experience of debate and Dyson’s is experience of natural disaster. Johnson’s essay revolved around her meeting with Peter Singer, a man with controversial views, while Dyson’s was how the media described black victims of Hurricane Katrina and what he personally …show more content…
Disabled people are viewed with a sense of sympathy. Johnson states “Strangers on the street are moved to comment: I admire you for being out; most people would have given up. God bless you! I’ll pray for you. You don’t let pain hold you back, do you? If I had to live like you, I think I’d kill myself”(120). These comments from strangers imply that they feel bad for Johnson and the disability she lives with, that they feel the need to comment. But in Dyson’s essay African Americans are seen more with dislike or hate. Dyson stated “No adjective or metaphor seemed alien to reporters seeking to adequately conjure the chaos of blackness being unleashed on the world in all of its despotic wizardry and evil inventiveness”(154). Dyson means that reporters wrote anything to get more popular by writing about fixed images of African Americans. Instead of sympathy, most American Americans had to deal with dislike and/or hate.
In conclusion, Dyson’s and Johnson’s essay deal with the connection between the media and oppression against people who are socially categorized. Both stereotypes were spread by the media. The two groups were treated and thought of as different because of the fixed images being disseminated. Those images being of false assumptions and spread and led to mistreatment of the ones being targeted. Even though the two essays have their differences, they