Rhetoric and Demagoguery
Rhetoric and Demagoguery One of Library Journal's Top 20 Best-Selling Language Titles of 2019In a culture of profit-driven media, demagoguery is a savvy short-term rhetorical strategy. When that…
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Rhetoric and Demagoguery
One of Library Journal's Top 20 Best-Selling Language Titles of 2019In a culture of profit-driven media, demagoguery is a savvy short-term rhetorical strategy. When that happens, arguments about policy are replaced by arguments about identity--and criticism is met with accusations that the critic has the wrong identity (weak, treacherous, membership in an out-group) or the wrong feelings (uncaring, heartless).Patricia Roberts-Miller proposes a definition of demagoguery based on her study of groups and cultures that have talked themselves into disastrously bad decisions. Once it becomes the norm, individuals are more likely to employ it and, in that way, increase its power by making it seem the only way of disagreeing with or about others.
She argues for seeing demagoguery as a way for people to participate in public discourse, and not necessarily as populist
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