Monday, February 11, 2008

While reading the articles, you start to understand the power of words and the way you arrange creates bias that most people won't pick up on.  If you analysis the words that are being used you know what way the other is trying to sway you.  Its also amazing at how subtle people can be, especially the government or other organizations.  An example how word use is "No child left behind."  It creates this very positive sentence and who would ever say "wait I think we should leave children behind in school."  Not many because you'd look like a jack ass.  But really it a horrible program. 

I wasn't there on Thursday to see the KKK video, but i've seen a couple of there sites for research and its amazing at the words they use.  You can make anything seem okay as long as you pick the right words that are used.  One of the leading points on the KKK website is that if you look at white christians world wide, they are actually a minority they only make up 11% of the total Earth population.  But they are very thankful in American they are still the majority.   You can easily notice the bias that they have but when you arrange figure to show that white christians are only 11%.  That would scare people who are already racist.  They use the word war a lot, "we're in a race war."  That makes people afraid, war is a scary thing, and when people think of war they think of death.

I just find it fascinating that when you really start looking at the words people use, and how they use them.  You realize that there is bias to almost everything.

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