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Anti Immigrant Links

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Anti Immigrant Discussion

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Anti Immigrant Lessons & Assignments

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Anti Immigrant Videos

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Anti-Immigration

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Anti Immigrant Images

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Anti Immigrant Texts

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Christian Extremists Images

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Children sent home from school for wearing -> shirts, issued by their Church.

- Freedom of speech vs. protection against discrimination
- religious "freedom" vs. hostility

"We are definitely trying to open up dialogue, create interest, create awareness, get people to think," Jones (head pastor of the church) said.

Christian Extremist Links

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Christian Extremists Lessons & Activities

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Christian Extremists Video

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Christian Extremist Texts

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Radical Islam Images

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Radical Islam Links

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Radical Islam

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Radical Islam is one of the most relevant and contemporary sources of rhetoric that manifests itself into violence today. Since the events of September 11th, 2001, radical Islam has become the focus in the global war on terror. Sadly, the image of Islam as a whole has been misconstrued and merged into the ideas of the radical minority, distorting the iamge of the religion itself in the eyes of the Western world.

Holocaust Discussion Questions

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Holocaust Lessons

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Holocaust Videos

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Highlighting the definition of antisemitism:

Radical Islam Videos

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The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
Global terrorism takes center stage, setting the pace for the new century in one of the most shocking displays of mass-violence on American soil since Pearl Harbor. The ways in which this event has changed, and will continue to change all realms of human interaction in the 21st century are profound and far-reaching.

Muslim's in the Western Media

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Merciless barbarians, fat-jolly genies, self-sacrificing zealots...
The video gives a progression depiction of Muslims in western movies over the past few decades. With the fall of the Soviet Union, and the events of 9-11, some would argue that Muslims are the new communists.

The Rhetoric of Hate

gztaylor5 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:33:15 CDT

Introduction

This is a site created to promote the development of a lesson plan I've been musing upon for a long time. It first came to me when discussing the monologue of a Shakespeare villain with Dr. Robert Stillman at UTK.
It centered around the nature of evil characters and people, and the ways in which they communicate. He'd mentioned many years ago he'd done a similar lesson, using the Holocaust, Mein Kamph, and a showing of Alain Resnais's Night and Fog.

This is basically my interpretation of that one assignment, expounded to include a modern day collage of various sources of hate rhetoric from around the world, and throughout history. I plan to use various online resources, Ning, wiki, etc. to compile and collect such information, and develop into a teaching lesson during my internship.

On a fundamental level, people think with words, yet few people realize the profound power and influence words can have on the world. I think this is a point that we, as English teachers, need to make sure our students are aware of.

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Goals

The lesson I'm primarily concerned with is how words and rhetoric have translated into acts of terrible violence throughout history. The lesson meets a plethora of English standards, from rhetoric and writing to critical thinking and analysis of complex texts. However, the ultimate goal of this lesson is to illuminate to students the profound influence of language, and as an extension, the dangers of 'othering'.

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Contributions

I have a vision for this wiki to end up as a sort of "information pool" of various sources of rhetoric and the violence caused by it throughout the world. If you're interested in contributing this pool, please feel free to contact me, and I'll be happy to add you as a member to the site. If you are not that comfortable with using technology, feel free to leave me information and links to resources, and I'll add the contributions myself.

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A note: This all started as a small assignment in a technology class at KSU, which I suddenly realized would be a great subject to turn into my master's thesis. A big thanks to Brian McDearmon for his contributions in the early stages of this, and to anyone else who contributes in the future.

-Zach