Download or read book Political Correctness in the Era of Trump written by Luigi Esposito and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, debates surrounding “political correctness” (PC) have once again intensified in the United States and other Western countries. Although PC has a long history, the term today is typically associated with a type of leftist-progressive puritanism that prevents people from speaking their minds or voicing uncomfortable truths that might “offend” members of marginalized groups or communities. In many respects, the political ascendancy of Donald J. Trump, and his appeal to millions of people not only in the USA, but around the world, hinges on the belief that his presidency represents a repudiation of the repressiveness associated with PC. Indeed, throughout his political campaign, Trump declared himself to be an “anti-PC” president who would always “speak his mind” and “tell it like it is.” However, while many celebrated Trump’s maverick, anti-PC stance, others saw this as an attack on basic standards of decency and civil discourse. Timely and important, this collection is authored by scholars from various disciplines, and will be of interest to educators, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as anyone interested in the debates associated with the so-called “culture wars” in the West. Each chapter addresses how the PC debate has continued to shape social and political discourse in different areas, including race relations, gender issues, terrorism and national security, higher education, the media, and immigration. The point is made that while some of the criticisms directed against PC are worthy of serious consideration and discussion, it is also true that PC, particularly in the era of Trump, has been increasingly employed as a form of ideological scapegoat to delegitimize and roll back language, attitudes, values, behaviors, and policies that are vital for promoting objectives associated with gender and racial equality, human rights, democracy, empathy, fairness, multiculturalism, and inclusive curricula.
Download or read book On the Question of Truth in the Era of Trump written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizes critical theory perspectives to examine the construction of truth and relativism with a focus on the role of the media in the wake of the 2016 election.
Download or read book Political Correctness written by The New York Times Editorial Staff and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary definition of "political correctness" did not begin to enter the cultural consciousness of Americans until the 1980s. Allan Bloom's criticism of higher education in The Closing of the American Mind sparked a conflict that has been continually discussed, satirized, and rehashed. With the election of President Trump in 2016 came a reenergized attack on P.C. culture, and a new wave of cultural critique in film, television, comedy, and literature. The New York Times articles collected in this volume cover the defining and redefining of political correctness since its inception, and suggest how this contentious concept may develop into the future. Media literacy questions and terms are included to further engage readers with the collection.
Download or read book Demagogue for President written by Jennifer Mercieca and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Bronze, 2020 Foreword Indies, Political and Social Sciences Winner, 2021 PROSE Award for Government & Politics "Deserves a place alongside George Orwell’s 'Politics and the English Language'. . . . one of the most important political books of this perilous summer."—The Washington Post "A must-read"—Salon "Highly recommended"—Jack Shafer, Politico Featured in "The Best New Books to Read This Summer" and "Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2020"—Literary Hub Historic levels of polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, the news media, and traditional political leadership set the stage in 2016 for an unexpected, unlikely, and unprecedented presidential contest. Donald Trump’s campaign speeches and other rhetoric seemed on the surface to be simplistic, repetitive, and disorganized to many. As Demagogue for President shows, Trump’s campaign strategy was anything but simple. Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how the Trump campaign expertly used the common rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two contradictory definitions—“a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power” or “a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times” (Merriam-Webster, 2019). These strategies, in conjunction with post-rhetorical public relations techniques, were meant to appeal to a segment of an already distrustful electorate. It was an effective tactic. Mercieca analyzes rhetorical strategies such as argument ad hominem, argument ad baculum, argument ad populum, reification, paralipsis, and more to reveal a campaign that was morally repugnant to some but to others a brilliant appeal to American exceptionalism. By all accounts, it fundamentally changed the discourse of the American public sphere.
Download or read book Trigger Warnings written by Jeff Sparrow and published by Scribe Us. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man lives, quite literally, in a building serviced by a golden elevator. Somehow, he presented himself as the scourge of the elites. For decades, he built a persona based on the most conspicuous consumption and the crassest of excess--and then he won the presidency on an anti-establishment ticket. The unlikely rise of Donald J. Trump exemplifies the political paradox of the twenty-first century. In this new Gilded Age, the contrast between the haves and the have-nots could not be starker. The world's eight richest billionaires control as much wealth as the poorest half of the planet--a disparity of wealth and political power unknown in any previous period. Yet not only have progressives failed to make gains in circumstances that should, on paper, favor egalitarianism and social justice, the angry populism that's prospered explicitly targets ideas associated with the left--and none more so than so-called 'political correctness'. If Trump--and others like Trump--can turn hostility to PC into a winning slogan, how should the left respond? In the face of a vicious new bigotry, should progressives double-down on identity politics and gender theory? Must they abandon political correctness and everything associated with it to reconnect with a working class they've alienated? Or is there, perhaps, another way entirely? In Trigger Warnings, Jeff Sparrow excavates the development of a powerful new vocabulary against progressive causes. From the Days of Rage to Gamergate, from the New Left to the alt-right, he traces changing attitudes to democracy and trauma, symbolism and liberation, in an exhilarating history of ideas and movements. Challenging progressive and conservative orthodoxies alike, Trigger Warnings is a bracing polemic and a persuasive case for a new kind of politics.
Download or read book TRUMP IS NOT a RACIST Here s Why written by Mykel Barthelemy and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald J. Trump, entrepreneur extraordinaire, ultra businessman, and real estate tycoon-turned President of the United States, was always revered by the African American community and the Hip-Hop industry as an economical and cultural icon. Only until recently, when campaigning for the presidency in 2016, the iconic mogul and once-adored portrait of the American dream has been labeled a "racist." Most Trump critics attempt to "prove" that he is a racist by using mythical examples from the twisted words of the propaganda machines. The author dispels the widespread opinion and slander, which is accepted as fact and uncovers its origins. She also analyzes the racist claim from an antebellum and recent historical, political, social, economic, logical, and just plain-old common-sense view. The author, Mykel Barthelemy, is a Black American woman.This literary masterpiece is a fantastic analogy of historical, political, and cultural twists and turns, that perfectly defines the essence of racism in America and how President Donald J. Trump is not a participant of it, but rather a victim of its culprits. The author brilliantly uncovers the foundation of American racism as well as the organizers of it. Mykel Barthelemy presents the elucidation derived from both pre and post-antebellum periods and exposes the political machine that created racism. The book opens like a suspense thriller from an unexpected angle identifying pre-World War II Nazi propaganda techniques used by Hitler to achieve mass mind control. Barthelemy exposes the collusion between the Left-wing media giants and the Democrat Party. She shares her personal experiences as a Black woman growing up in Post-Jim Crow Gulf Coast Louisiana and exemplifies historically how racism was forced on both Whites and Blacks by the Democrat party via the Slave codes and the Black Codes, also known as Jim Crow Laws. The author shares how racism was "the law," and there was no escape from it regardless of skin color -- and how racism was moral and political correctness at that time. She demonstrates how the moral determination of most Americans within the last fifty years has been shaped by the spirit of political correctness. The book also details the true nature of racism and highlights semantics used by the Left to promote national division. In conjunction with the powerful Left-wing propaganda machine, overt and covert racism create a deadly combination. Public paranoia is ignited by media personalities, commentators, news anchors, entertainers, sports figures, and networks through technology, intentionally forcing and controlling political narratives. Barthelemy explains how propaganda and semantics redefine words, and therefore, redefine thought. In effect, this deliberate manipulation of the moral orientation of our national consciousness also re-writes history. The expose' reveals how these perpetrators use the same methods to gaslight and brainwash the masses into a psychological frenzy of hate and mobilize them as an echo chamber to resonate their message. The author demonstrates how this CIA "Operation Mockingbird"-styled propaganda technique used to demonize individuals, groups of people, and in particular, vilifying the President of the United States of America, which is tantamount to overturning the 2016 election through a propagandized coup. The author dispels the racist label placed on President Donald J. Trump by proof of his contributions to the Black community through strengthening African American art, historically black colleges and universities, lowering the unemployment rate, and his other philanthropic endeavors. Barthelemy calls POTUS's contributions to the R&B and Hip-Hop music industry, friendships, litigations, philosophies, as well as his Presidential actions, policies, and executive orders to supply the simple truth that Donald Trump is not a racist.
Download or read book Language in the Trump Era written by Janet McIntosh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in his campaign, Donald Trump boasted that 'I know words. I have the best words', yet despite these assurances his speech style has sown conflict even as it has powered his meteoric rise. If the Trump era feels like a political crisis to many, it is also a linguistic one. Trump has repeatedly alarmed people around the world, while exciting his fan-base with his unprecedented rhetorical style, shock-tweeting, and weaponized words. Using many detailed examples, this fascinating and highly topical book reveals how Trump's rallying cries, boasts, accusations, and mockery enlist many of his supporters into his alternate reality. From Trump's relationship to the truth, to his use of gesture, to the anti-immigrant tenor of his language, it illuminates the less obvious mechanisms by which language in the Trump era has widened divisions along lines of class, gender, race, international relations, and even the sense of truth itself.
Download or read book Common Sense written by Tom Pain and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to represent the thought process of an independent, middle-class voter. After a lifetime of experience in a wide range of occupations, the author hopes to express opinions using humor and insight by adding a variety of personal-interest vignettes that are presented as commentary. Independents will have a significant impact on the 2020 elections. The reasons why I voted for Donald Trump were articulated in detail and were based on my analysis of what an average, hardworking American, Middle Class Independent Voter felt about the Political, Cultural, and Economic conditions that existed at the onset of the 2016 Presidential Election. Donald Trump appeared on the scene at the precise time he was needed. The Middle Class was hurting financially and their dreams for a better life had been ignored by both parties for decades. Spending so many years working dead end jobs or even two jobs barely allowed us to keep our heads above water. The politically correct culture wars drained our strength and tested our patience. The political parties that we had trusted were, elitist, disappointing and arrogant which is why we became Independent voters! Donald Trump instinctively knew we were ripe for the picking. We instinctively knew that he was the right one to pick. And we did!
Download or read book Triggered written by Donald Trump Jr. and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the book that the leftist elites don't want you to read -- Donald Trump, Jr., exposes all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to rampant "political correctness." In Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr. will expose all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to fake accusations of "hate speech." No topic is spared from political correctness. This is the book that the leftist elites don't want you to read! Trump, Jr. will write about the importance of fighting back and standing up for what you believe in. From his childhood summers in Communist Czechoslovakia that began his political thought process, to working on construction sites with his father, to the major achievements of President Trump's administration, Donald Trump, Jr. spares no details and delivers a book that focuses on success and perseverance, and proves offense is the best defense.
Download or read book Trump and Us written by Roderick P. Hart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trump won the presidency not because of partisanship, policy, or economic factors but because of how he makes people feel.
Download or read book Forbidden Words written by Keith Allan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are 'sweet-talking', 'straight-talking' or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language playfully and figuratively in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct, and what our motivations are for doing so. It goes on to examine the differences between institutionalized censorship and the ways individuals censor their own language. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation.
Download or read book Late Night with Trump written by Stephen J. Farnsworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political humor has been a staple of late-night television for decades. The Trump White House, however, has received significantly greater attention than that of past presidents, such as Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and even Bill Clinton. In response to Trump’s strident politics, late-night comics, including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah and Jimmy Fallon, have sounded key policy notes, further blurring the boundary between news and satire. Weekly humorists, including John Oliver and Samantha Bee, extend the critique with in-depth probing of key issues, while Saturday Night Live continues to tap the progression from outrage to outrageousness. Using unique content analysis techniques and qualitative discussions of political humor, Farnsworth and Lichter show how late-night political humor, and these seven programs in particular, have responded to the Trump presidency. Employing a dataset of more than 100,000 late night jokes going back decades, these noted media scholars discuss how the treatment of Trump differs from previous presidents, and how the Trump era is likely to shape the future of political humor. The authors also employ public opinion survey data to consider the growing role these late-night programs play in framing public opinion and priorities. This book will interest scholars, the curious public, and students of politics, communications and the media, and contemporary American culture.
Download or read book Donald J Trump is Kickin on the Road to Rushmore A Trump Supporters Bible written by Mansplainer Solzhenitsyn Cartman and published by Dt2020. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *THIS IS THE ONE BOOK EVERY TRUMP SUPPORTER AND CONSERVATIVE MUST HAVE!* Donald J. Trump is President! - and America is BACK! ...More Awesome than EVER! Now that all have been warned, evacuate any "Safe Spaces" because this book is to college "Safe Spaces" what the B-29 was to Hiroshima. LOOK OUT BELOW! This book totally demolishes things like Political Correctness, Hollywood, Liberal Academia, and the Fake News Media, as this book rides shotgun for our great President Donald J. Trump. This book is for those that love America and want to make it great again, and serves as a narrative of Donald Trump's election as President, through the end of the Muller Report and the real conclusion of the 2016 election. It also details many of the fights with all the enemies of America, Western Civilization, God, reason, and sanity that President Donald Trump had to endure and battle with, in order to get started fixing America. This book EMPOWERS REPUBLICANS and CONSERVATIVES as it is part Historic narrative, part Politics, part Comedy, part Satire, part Napalm, and 100% painful truths liberals don't seem to understand, can't comprehend, or never want to admit. No Liberal lies, no distortion, and most of all, no Bull S#!t fake news. This book is to absurd Leftist Literature what Reality TV is to Shakespearian Theatre. Enjoy!!
Download or read book Audience of One Donald Trump Television and the Fracturing of America written by James Poniewozik and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Top 10 Politics and Current Events Books of Fall 2019 (Publishers Weekly) An incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president. Television has entertained America, television has ensorcelled America, and with the election of Donald J. Trump, television has conquered America. In Audience of One, New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of TV and mass media from the Reagan era to today, explaining how a volcanic, camera-hogging antihero merged with America’s most powerful medium to become our forty-fifth president. In the tradition of Neil Postman’s masterpiece Amusing Ourselves to Death, Audience of One shows how American media have shaped American society and politics, by interweaving two crucial stories. The first story follows the evolution of television from the three-network era of the 20th century, which joined millions of Americans in a shared monoculture, into today’s zillion-channel, Internet-atomized universe, which sliced and diced them into fractious, alienated subcultures. The second story is a cultural critique of Donald Trump, the chameleonic celebrity who courted fame, achieved a mind-meld with the media beast, and rode it to ultimate power. Braiding together these disparate threads, Poniewozik combines a cultural history of modern America with a revelatory portrait of the most public American who has ever lived. Reaching back to the 1940s, when Trump and commercial television were born, Poniewozik illustrates how Donald became “a character that wrote itself, a brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box and entered the world, a simulacrum that replaced the thing it represented.” Viscerally attuned to the media, Trump shape-shifted into a boastful tabloid playboy in the 1980s; a self-parodic sitcom fixture in the 1990s; a reality-TV “You’re Fired” machine in the 2000s; and finally, the biggest role of his career, a Fox News–obsessed, Twitter-mad, culture-warring demagogue in the White House. Poniewozik deconstructs the chaotic Age of Trump as the 24-hour TV production that it is, decoding an era when politics has become pop culture, and vice versa. Trenchant and often slyly hilarious, Audience of One is a penetrating and sobering review of the raucous, raging, farcical reality show—performed for the benefit of an insomniac, cable-news-junkie “audience of one”—that we all came to live in, whether we liked it or not.
Download or read book The Tweeter of the Free World written by William H. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald J. Trump hasn't changed since he has become President of the United States, in fact Trump hasn't changed one bit since his first tweet May 4, 2009. His fourth tweet of all time, was actually a quote about a wall. "The Tweeter of the Free World" is a collection of classic tweets dating from Trump from his beginning on twitter through the first year of the presidency.
Download or read book The Trump Supporters Bible written by Mansplainer Solzhenitsyn Cartman and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *THIS IS THE ONE BOOK EVERY TRUMP SUPPORTER AND CONSERVATIVE MUST HAVE!* Donald J. Trump is President! - and America is BACK! ...More Awesome than EVER! Now that all have been warned, evacuate any "Safe Spaces" because this book is to college "Safe Spaces" what the B-29 was to Hiroshima. LOOK OUT BELOW! This book totally demolishes things like Political Correctness, Hollywood, Liberal Academia, and the Fake News Media, as this book rides shotgun for our great President Donald J. Trump. This book is for those that love America and want to make it great again, and serves as a narrative of Donald Trump's election as President, through the end of the Muller Report and the real conclusion of the 2016 election. It also details many of the fights with all the enemies of America, Western Civilization, God, reason, and sanity that President Donald Trump had to endure and battle with, in order to get started fixing America. This book EMPOWERS REPUBLICANS and CONSERVATIVES as it is part Historic narrative, part Politics, part Comedy, part Satire, part Napalm, and 100% painful truths liberals don't seem to understand, can't comprehend, or never want to admit. No Liberal lies, no distortion, and most of all, no Bull S#!t fake news. This book is to absurd Leftist Literature what Reality TV is to Shakespearian Theatre. Enjoy!!
Download or read book Insecure Majorities written by Frances E. Lee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] tour de force. Building upon her argument in Beyond Ideology, she adds an important wrinkle into the current divide between the parties in Congress.” —Perspectives on Politics As Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing ideological gulf between the parties, but this explanation misses another fundamental factor influencing the dynamic. In contrast to politics through most of the twentieth century, the contemporary Democratic and Republican parties compete for control of Congress at relative parity, and this has dramatically changed the parties’ incentives and strategies in ways that have driven the contentious partisanship characteristic of contemporary American politics. With Insecure Majorities, Frances E. Lee offers a controversial new perspective on the rise of congressional party conflict, showing how the shift in competitive circumstances has had a profound impact on how Democrats and Republicans interact. Beginning in the 1980s, most elections since have offered the prospect of a change of party control. Lee shows, through an impressive range of interviews and analysis, how competition for control of the government drives members of both parties to participate in actions that promote their own party’s image and undercut that of the opposition, including the perpetual hunt for issues that can score political points by putting the opposing party on the wrong side of public opinion. More often than not, this strategy stands in the way of productive bipartisan cooperation—and it is also unlikely to change as long as control of the government remains within reach for both parties.
