Counter-Argument

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by Carolyn Herman3 views·Updated Feb 8, 2021
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  1. Hi. We are continuing our quest to understand perfect and
  2. recognize counter argument.
  3. Um, So what we're gonna do today is we're gonna
  4. look at counter argument in the real world.
  5. So so far, our practice arguments have been sort of
  6. theoretical, like tacos and social media, video game stuff like
  7. that. So I wanted to look at some examples of
  8. how people really use this.
  9. Our first example is we're gonna look at how Martin
  10. Luther King use counter argument to make his arguments more
  11. persuasive. We're gonna look at the topic of violence and
  12. video games and how people would construct a counter argument
  13. about that.
  14. Um and then we're gonna look at how we actually
  15. use counter argument in hip hop with looking at the
  16. film eight miles.
  17. So these will be examples of things in the real
  18. world. Um, obviously, we're gonna look closer at Dr King
  19. because he was a master of the art of rhetoric
  20. or a master rhetoric.
  21. Um, one of the reasons why he's still so famous
  22. and why he was so effective was that all of
  23. the things that we've learned over the last couple months,
  24. everything from poetic devices to logos, pathos, ethos counter arguments.
  25. He used all of them incredibly well.
  26. Um, it is obviously Black History Month on DSO.
  27. It's just a great excuse to talk not only about
  28. fabulous black Americans, but also how they have impacted in
  29. American history using rhetoric.
  30. So this is like a triple for one.
  31. Um, before the first excuse me, the first example, we're
  32. gonna look at three example of counter argument is in
  33. Dr King's letter letter from a Birmingham jail.
  34. Eso We're going to give a little bit of historical
  35. context for that.
  36. So you know why he was writing letters from jail
  37. on dhe?
  38. Why, he might have had cause to do those things.
  39. Um, all right, so that is the basic background of
  40. letter from a Birmingham jail.
  41. Um, it's worth mentioning that this letter was a little
  42. bit more controversial than, like, the classic.
  43. I have a dream speech because he called people out.
  44. He wasn't just saying, Hey, I have a dream, and
  45. we should all be not racist together.
  46. He was also like, I am disappointed in the moderate
  47. white American.
  48. He's like the Racists right there.
  49. Terrible on.
  50. They're trying to kill me.
  51. but at least I know where they stand.
  52. But the moderate person who stands by and does nothing
  53. is far more disappointing.
  54. The person who is a good person who is not
  55. a racist, who knows what good things are but just
  56. kind of stands by and lets those things happen anyway
  57. because they wanna be nice.
  58. Hey called those people out on DSO It made some
  59. people uncomfortable.
  60. Uh, but other people argue that making people uncomfortable was
  61. why this letter was so effective.
  62. So we're gonna look at kind of a big counter
  63. argument video, and we'll sort of pull apart how he
  64. used ethos to make his counter argument and his rebuttal
  65. stronger and convince more people.
  66. So here's some basics of counter argument, I think.
  67. Okay, Um, so that's what I remember being ham jail.
  68. Fabulous. Um, now we're going Thio, look at some more
  69. basic counter argument.
  70. So Dr King was like, you know, the master.
  71. He's the master federation.
  72. Video games, however, and whether they cause violence or not
  73. is a topic that feels a little closer to home.
  74. Eso We're gonna take a look at that now.
  75. Um and finally, we're going to look at how Eminem,
  76. the rapper Eminem, uses counter argument in this big rap
  77. battle that he has with this other guy.
  78. Eso. He's been sort of losing the rap battle game,
  79. this entire movie, like he has good ideas but kind
  80. of kind of a choke artist and doesn't really pull
  81. through. But he sort of does in this final scene.
  82. And he does that by using counter argument by taking
  83. away whatever his opponent was going to say about him
  84. and kind of using it for himself.
  85. So it's a classic use of counter argument.