Politically Correct V.S. Personal Computers
Godwin’s Law is “The theory that as an online discussion progresses, it becomes inevitable that someone or something will eventually be compared to Adolf Hitler or the Nazis, regardless of the original topic.” (Oxford Dictionaries) This law has seem too have held true in regards to the ever going online debate over PC gaming verses console gaming. An online video game critic in 2011 made fun of PC gaming elitist by referring to them as “the glorious PC gaming master race” (Escapist. THE WITCHER (Zero Punctuation).) However, many PC gamers have taken the insult as a badge of honor. Tyler Wilde has written "Let’s Stop Calling Ourselves the “PC Master Race” in 2015, published on the PC GAMER magazine
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website, in response to the growing use of this term. He deems it inappropriate and claims that the use of the term does not benefit PC gaming as a whole. Although his article seems over-all well put together, it suffers from a few mistakes that make it weak. The central claim of Tyler Wilde’s article is that using the term PC gaming master race is inappropriate and is not the best fit for the PC community.
Wilde begins his article with an analogy comparing internet memes to pizza. He says, “And that pizza is internet humor. No matter how much we enjoy them at first, all jokes mold, but damned if they don’t stick around anyway.” (Wilde, Tyler. "Let’s Stop Calling Ourselves the “PC Master Race”) He then goes on to explain how the term originally was an insult that PC gamer took on as their title. Wilde then goes on to claim that the PC community should not identify itself with a meme that makes people uncomfortable. He then iterates that this is not a plea for political correctness and that he just wants a title that fits the brand of PC gaming better. He recognizes that those that use the term don’t mean to be offensive; however, he still thinks it is inappropriate. He concludes with a call for the PC gaming community to adopt a new …show more content…
name. The context on this piece is important in determining the authority of the author and how up to date the article is. Tyler Wilde, Executive Editor and self-proclaimed PC gamer, wrote this article for the PC Gamer magazine’s website. This gives him a claim to authority on the matter because he is not only a member of the PC community, but also a high-up in a periodical dedicated to PC gaming. It was written on Jan 13, 2015 so it is till relevant to the issue since use of the term was rapidly growing at this time. The article has a weak introduction.
It begins with an analogy comparing pizza to internet jokes with the goal of showing how they both do not age well. This analogy seems like a fallacy because of the weak connection to the two items being compared. It also seems to derail the reader from the actual topic and overall informative article at the very beginning. The analogy also seems playful with the subject matter which makes the issue less serious and thus less authority seems established. This mistake hurt the effectiveness of his writing by making the intro confusing and hurting his credibility with a bad
analogy. The overall style of the article is simple, sleek, and effective at is purpose. As mentioned before the article was written by Tyler Wilde for PC Gamer and was featured on the magazine’s website. The text and format resemble that of any other article, being simple and easy to read. However, occasionally text will be bold and read to indicate they are hyperlinks to webpages to whatever he maybe mentioning at the moment. These give his text an interactive feature so the reader may check to make sure he is not making anything up or to inform themselves if they are not familiar. This reference material and the ease that it can be accessed is a nice feature that makes the article feel more professional. His main message or point is blurred and confused. For example, Wilde article states, “This isn’t a plea for political correctness—not associating oneself with Nazi pastiches is just good living. It’s fun to treat our hobby like a club and build camaraderie, but I don’t think a reference to white supremacy is going to encourage club membership.” (Wilde, Tyler. "Let’s Stop Calling Ourselves the “PC Master Race”). In this statement I see that he is trying to separate himself from people that overly push political correctness; however, he simultaneously is calling for political correctness. There are other moments like this where he creates a confusing message by saying he is not doing a thing, but is really trying to that same thing with a different name. This gives the reader a mixed message and weakens the persuasive power of the essay. Tyler Wilde’s article is weak even though it has a good style and authority established by the author. It is weak because of a few key mistakes that Wilde made in composing his article. One was the weak analogy he used to introduce his topic that seemed out of place in the article as a whole. Another was not clearly wording his message which confuses the reader as to what his goal is. These few fatal mistakes over shadow the better aspects of the article; such as the formatting and use of reference material.
This article sarcastically gives advice on parents, respecting superiors, going to bed early, lying skillfully, firearms, and books. As a result, the author implies the advice usually given to youths is unnecessary. He states, “Build your character thoughtfully and painstakingly upon these precepts, and by and by, when you have got it built, you will be surprised and gratified to see how nicely and sharply it resembles everybody else’s” (Para 8). The author purposely exaggerates his advice to perceive how everyone hears the same advice but no one actually listens to the advice given, not even the people giving the advice. Therefore, he uses exaggeration to contradict the advice given to
There is always going to be the opposing side to the writers ideas and presenting this opposition could either hurt or harm the article. This time, Balko’s team won the race. Balko’s presence of the opposition helped his argument more so than harmed it. The opposition is stated when he says, “President Bush marked $200 million in his budget for anti-obesity measures. State legislatures and school boards across the country have begun banning snacks and soda from campuses and vending machine.” (396) While reading that statistic I thought, “How Awful!”. By stating the opposition it makes the reader wonder, “Who should really take the blame?” This helps enforce the writers argument it doesn 't harm it all. It actually attracts the reader to the position of Balko’s argument due to strong and effective statistics. In contrast, Zinczenko’s article does the complete opposite when he says, “Kids taking on McDonald’s this week, suing the company for making them fat. Isn 't that like middle-aged men suing Porshe for making them get speeding tickets? Whatever happened to personal responsibility?” (391) The writers opposition actually sounds more effective than his initial argument and that should never happen. The writer would 've been better off not stating the existence of the opposition at all. The opposition didn 't help enforce the side of the writer it only made it look less appealing. It leads the reader to
The article I have chosen for my rhetorical analysis is #Gamergate Trolls Aren’t Ethics Crusaders; They’re a hate group because it seemed interesting. The reason I was drawn to this article was because of the title, I was interested to know what it meant. This article, written by Jennifer Allaway, is about gamergate, an online gaming community, and the hate they show towards others. Jennifer does research on sexism in videogames and how it correlates to the gamers that play these games. She was collecting data from different organizations by using a questionnaire that gathered information on diversity in the videogame community. When some gamergate members
The authors of these passages have very different ideas about censorship. After evaluation I will determine which passage states a stronger argument. I believe that Passage 1 provides a stronger argument over Passage 2.
In the article, “What If Kayne West is Retarded?” the author is ridiculing Kayne West and explaining how much of a complete imbecile he is. The author’s primary purpose of this article is to inform the intended audience on how moronic Kayne really is. The secondary purpose of this article is to entertain the audience. The article is broken down into four different sections explaining the various reasons why he is allegedly retarded. The tone is conversational and sarcastic. In this article, the sentence structure is simple, but some complex sentences are also used. Such as the sentence structure, the word choice of the article uses simple and complex words. The author incorporates structure, tone, word choice, and sentence structure in this article to captivate the audience he is addressing his proposal for.
The “Politically Correct” movement’s purpose is to bring historically condescending terms, offensive music and art, and controversial educational content to an end and replace them with more positive and less-offending references. Offensive and demoralizing efforts are wrong, but the censorship and deletion of words and phrases that do not contain the intention to demoralize are taking political correctness too far. Politically correct (or “PC”) antics have created a social decline that is growing worse with each generation, specifically regarding areas of art, education, language, and our right to freedom of speech; the degradation they have brought to the American psyche has even led to name-changing.
Censorship is detrimental to society. People can’t learn from their mistakes if we hide them. People can’t decide the best option if we say there are no options. People can’t understand each other if they don’t know what anyone is thinking. People can’t mature when they are “protected” from mean words. People can’t be themselves when they are being censored.
Everywhere someone turns there are censors, protection against “explicit material” and pixels to blur out the middle finger and body parts. If one turns on the tv, there will be blurs and bleeps between every channel and even parts being taken out of movies because of content that is censored from the audience. Words, music, and even television are censored to “prevent negative displays of cultures,individuals, or communities” (“Revealed…”).Censorship is mainly regarding parents and children- what they deem has the best and worst influence on them. Of course one can argue that censors are mandatory,for children especially, but in truth censors are non essential nuisances. What these censors do is create a barrier for teenagers and preteens from reality and what actually happens in real life. As well as shielding young children from harmful material that a child should not see. Although censors are needed to protect children from explicit material, there is also too much censoring in books,music, and television.
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