Patricia Roberts-Miller Questions

1. Demagoguery: “…emphasizing the morals and motives of the rhetor” (Roberts Miller 460), Scapegoating: “Individuals (or communities) can deny responsibility for a situation by projecting that responsibility onto some outgroup” (Roberts Miller 464), Polarization: “two options: their policy, and some obviously stupid, impractical, or shameful one” (Roberts Miller 462), “Simple Solutions”: “…elimination of the outgroup and promotion of the ingroup” (Roberts Miller 465) , Ingroup/Outgroup Thinking:”…some people whom we think of as “like us” in some important regard, and others who are very different from us in some equally important regard” (Roberts Miller 462).
2. Persuasion that relies on strategies like scapegoating and polarization is a problem because it it not always true. 
3. “Sometimes a fallacy is defined by an appeal to how some audience does (or would) perceive the argument…” (Roberts Miller 467). It makes assumptions that the belief of “most people” is reliable.
4. LaPierre uses a lot of polarization. He makes his claim seem as the only solution to the problem and makes everyone else’s opinions seem as unimportant.
5. One of the fallacies that LaPierre’s text resembles is the use of pathos. LaPierre plays on the audiences emotions to persuade them to agree with him.