Tyranny Of The Mob Rhetorical Analysis

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Tyranny of the Mob” by Joel Stein focuses on how the internet is being used as a gateway to hate and that the people who have access to it have normalized the negative attributes. This article shows personal examples of how the web is becoming a vile link in the lives of humanity. Leslie Jones, a co-star in Ghostbusters said “They started sending me threats that they were going to cut off my head and stuff they do to ‘N words.’ It’s not done to express an opinion, it’s done to scare you.” Stein uses this personal example to show that the article’s main idea is how these trolls are threatening the lives of others through social media and how they are effecting the victims’ life. When a troll grasps onto information about their next casualty,

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