I recently stumbled upon another article that discusses the use of angry rhetoric. I recently just did a blog on FOX news and how people are criticizing, and I feel rightly so, the news hosts continual use of "angry" rhetoric. A common example of this is their use of the word Nazi and I have already discussed how I do not believe that this should even be qualified as rhetoric, which has many forms, but what I think of as a nice discussion or debate between two people who both get a chance to adequately give their points and listen to the others. There is also the chance that one of the people will change their minds on a subject, which rarely happens on TV nowadays or is even given a chance.
This week, I came across an article that begs people to stop using this form of rhetoric as it is causing violence in itself. The call was made by a Democrat in response to the shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords this past month. I wholeheartedly agree with this man in his call to stop this senseless waste of perfectly good rhetoric. If people just learned to stop being so narrow minded and opened themselves up to a different view, instead of just berating people who don't share the same view, we could learn a lot from each other and stop the violence.
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