Post by Racial Reality on Mar 17, 2004 8:38:51 GMT -5
TERRORISM ON THE WEB
By Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D.
New York Institute of Technology - 2002
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As the design of Hizbollah's Web site implies, recruitment is an important function of such sites and, because of this, other hate sites also try to strike some balance between disarming and aggressive rhetorical content. Stormfront, for instance, in an attempt to appear "warm and fuzzy" to those who may have children and, perhaps, women who might think that the organization is only for single white males, has a children's site attached to its homepage. This "kids page" has innocuous attractions like a "games" link and a link to a page with amusing optical illusions. There is nothing overtly political about these links. Their evident rhetorical purpose is simply to make the page seem like harmless "fun." But combined with these links are others that provide insidious indoctrination. Clicking on the "music" link, for example, lends access to skinhead tunes, and there are links to essays that teach children white supremacist views about history. Such essays on Stormfront's "kids page" as "March of the Titans: A History of the White Race," use anthropological discoveries, like that of a Caucasian race that lived in northern China 3000 years ago, to "prove" that whites are in some way superior to others. This attempt at argumentation fits Aristotle's description of an appeal to logos, or to the rational aspect of a person's consciousness. As Aristotle specifies, this kind of argumentation is "artistic" in that it does not rely solely upon evidence, but upon its manipulation by the rhetor to make it look convincing to his audience.
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www.geocities.com/klagrandeur/terrorpaper3.html
I had never noticed that the MOTT link was on the Kids Page. That's an appropriate location because it's written at about a 3rd grade level.
By Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D.
New York Institute of Technology - 2002
. . .
As the design of Hizbollah's Web site implies, recruitment is an important function of such sites and, because of this, other hate sites also try to strike some balance between disarming and aggressive rhetorical content. Stormfront, for instance, in an attempt to appear "warm and fuzzy" to those who may have children and, perhaps, women who might think that the organization is only for single white males, has a children's site attached to its homepage. This "kids page" has innocuous attractions like a "games" link and a link to a page with amusing optical illusions. There is nothing overtly political about these links. Their evident rhetorical purpose is simply to make the page seem like harmless "fun." But combined with these links are others that provide insidious indoctrination. Clicking on the "music" link, for example, lends access to skinhead tunes, and there are links to essays that teach children white supremacist views about history. Such essays on Stormfront's "kids page" as "March of the Titans: A History of the White Race," use anthropological discoveries, like that of a Caucasian race that lived in northern China 3000 years ago, to "prove" that whites are in some way superior to others. This attempt at argumentation fits Aristotle's description of an appeal to logos, or to the rational aspect of a person's consciousness. As Aristotle specifies, this kind of argumentation is "artistic" in that it does not rely solely upon evidence, but upon its manipulation by the rhetor to make it look convincing to his audience.
. . .
www.geocities.com/klagrandeur/terrorpaper3.html
I had never noticed that the MOTT link was on the Kids Page. That's an appropriate location because it's written at about a 3rd grade level.
