{"id":11322,"date":"2024-11-14T00:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T05:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/?page_id=11322"},"modified":"2024-11-14T00:38:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T05:38:28","slug":"samla2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/conferences\/samla2024\/","title":{"rendered":"SAMLA 2024 Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Original Title:<\/strong> <em>Argumentum ad Civilization<\/em>: White Nationalist Rhetoric and the Enduring Myth of Manifest Destiny<br><span style=\"background-color:yellow\"><strong>Settled Title:<\/strong> More Flies with Honey: Tempering Inflammatory Rhetoric in the MAGA Era<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Scope of the Presentation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Expressivist Rhetoric<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No One Size Fits All<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Logical Fallacies and Messaging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anti-Intellectualism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trust, Enrollment, Managed Expectations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cy Knoblauch&#8217;s &#8220;Expressivist Rhetoric<\/strong>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Discursive Ideologies: Reading Western Rhetoric<\/em>. Utah State UP, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;expressivist rhetoric&#8221; is not concerned with &#8220;objective reality independent of the perceiving subject,\u2026but rather what\u2026[it] means to the perceiving subject&#8221; (105)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;expressivist rhetoric emphasizes the importance of the individual and of personal liberties&#8221; (23)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Sophistic and romantic ideologies are, by contrast, intrinsically iconoclastic, relativizing truth and thereby rendering the social as a patchwork of competing claims for sovereignty while exalting values of <strong>personal expression<\/strong>, <strong>freedom of thought<\/strong>, individual <strong>autonomy<\/strong>, and the authenticity of <strong>personal voice<\/strong>&#8221; (119)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>White Supremacy Spectrum<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>KKK to Aryan Nation to Proud Boys<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Worldwide Movements<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Claim Persecution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Richard Rorty defines&#8230;&#8221;irony means holding to beliefs and attitudes which one knows are contingent and could be otherwise, that is, they have no universal foundations&#8221; (Barker &amp; Jane 626).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/hate-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hate Map<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Sovereign Citizens Movement&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.national-assembly.net\/download\/file.php?id=1166&amp;sid=59baf11d6fab2397aa2ed62eab614eea&amp;mode=view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hawaiian &#8220;Florida Man&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Moms for Liberty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Multicultural Coalition<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Latino Men\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Voted for Trump: 55% (CNN), 47% (FOX\/AP)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enrique Tarrio, imprisoned Proud Boys Leader and former Florida state director of Latinos for Trump<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increased support among Black men<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kamala Harris&#8217;s working class appeal\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;As president, I will get rid of the unnecessary degree requirements for federal jobs to increase jobs for folks without a four-year degree&#8221; (Mason and Singh).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Anti-Trans Groups and Women&#8217;s Sports<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Riley Gaines Barker\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iVlME4-ZcNk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Speaker, Trump-Vance rally in Glendale, AZ<\/a><\/strong> (23 Aug. 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/its-xx-real-womens-day-heres-how-you-can-celebrate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anti-trans Women in Girls Sports<\/a><\/strong> (Fox News interview, 10 Oct. 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rileygainescenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project BOYcott<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Title: Argumentum ad Civilization: White Nationalist Rhetoric and the Enduring Myth of Manifest DestinySettled Title: More Flies with Honey: Tempering Inflammatory Rhetoric in the MAGA Era Scope of the Presentation Cy Knoblauch&#8217;s &#8220;Expressivist Rhetoric&#8220; Discursive Ideologies: Reading Western Rhetoric. 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