Wackos And Brown Lashers

Imagine you and you’re despised nemesis being asked how you felt towards each other. The speaker of these two passages talk about the other group other with such hate that their opinions become emotional and unproductive. However, the arguments of the “wackos” and the “brown lashers” are not completely distinct, on the contrary the arguments share common techniques.The author uses satirical words in both passages to highlight and show how similar their arguments are. This strategy is used to illustrate the unproductivity their arguments share.

One form of satire that particularly stands out is his use of diction. Both speakers are so focused on oppresing on the other group that they allow emotions to invade their arguments. For example in

The speakers mostly base their arguments off emotions and opinions rather than facts. For example in passage A Wilson says, “Relax your guard when these people are in power and your property rights go down the tube.” The speaker sets a situation in which he know no one will oppose. The speaker states that if these environmentalists could have the power they would take your land away to preserve an endangered species. Of course it is important to preserve life, but no one wants to lose their property and money that they have worked for. As stated emotion is also used in passage B when Wilson says, “ They keep their right-wing political agenda mostly hidden when downgrading climate change and species extinction, but for them economic growth is always the ultimate, and maybe the only, good.” The speaker insinuates that the anti-environmentalists look over situations that have to do with conservation and only focus on the money. The intentions of this statement is to anger the reader by informing him that anti-environmentalists only care about the money. Emotion is used in both passages to create a deeper connection with the reader in attempt to convince them that they are