Analysis Of The Other Side Is Not Dumb
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Sean Blanda’s, “The Other Side Is Not Dumb”, uses cultural examples concerning the younger American generation involving, the medias influence and peer pressure vs the actual facts and proof, involved while forming a personal opinion. The author emphasizes how the effects of pressure from our surroundings, such as: friends, media, and more, adjust our view of political and social subjects. He includes multiple cases of where your own ignorance can hinder your learning and interaction with others. If you continue to have a negative outlook on people who disagree with you, you’ll never be able to consider yourself a curious person and participate in social media. “We cannot consider ourselves “empathetic” only to turn around and belittle those that don’t agree with us.”- Mr. Blanda The article was published on a website called “Medium”, which is a community of readers and writers who can share their ideas online for others to see. Being a form of social media is just one of the indications that the piece is aimed towards the younger generation, along with other mentions pointing towards American teens. The story proves that there are always 3 perspectives in an argument, yours, theirs, and the truth. Another reason why this article was written for …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how sean blanda's "the other side is not dumb" uses cultural examples concerning the younger american generation involving, the medias influence and peer pressure vs the actual facts and proof, involved while forming a personal opinion.
- Explains that the article was published on a website called "medium", which is an online community of readers and writers who can share their ideas for others to see.
- Analyzes the graph of tv program popularity vs media mentions in the piece. the big bang theory has over 20 million viewers, while game of thrones has under 10 million.
- Analyzes how the image correlates to sean's overall message in the story and gives hard evidence of what the media is talking about vs the actual habits of people.
- Analyzes how blanda explains fox news, red state or slate links exist to produce content to be shared so friends can agree with each other and those who disagree.
- Analyzes how the image fits in well with the article "the other side is not dumb". the audience is teenagers and young adults, and most people are on social media.
- Analyzes the connection between social media and people sharing news, and the fact that most people share certain subjects.
- Analyzes how sean talks about how the washington post stopped publishing its internet fact-checking column because people didn't seem to care if stuff was true.
- Analyzes how uses a lot of ethos through his piece, including credibility in the graphs and percentages used in images 1 and 2.
- Concludes that no one will truly progress as an individual until an honest effort to understand those that are not like us is made.
- Analyzes how sean blanda's article flows smoothly and directly gets across his message that we ourselves and our friends can sometimes be in the wrong and that the other side is not dumb.
Blanda explains Fox News, Red State or Slate links only exist to produce content to be shared so friends can agree with each other and those who disagree. “Sharing links that mock a caricature of the other side isn’t signaling that we’re somehow more informed” – Sean Blanda. It shows people would rather show off to their friends how much they’re like them rather than try to understand an opinion different then
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