Kogan Klein

COM 210-020

4/4/17

Blog #2

A Country Divided

            This election is one of the most controversial and upbringing ones in the history books. Many people are shocked and passionate about their opinions and beliefs when it comes to being either a republican or a democrat. The United States of America is now more divided as a country than ever, whether you’re all for Trump or not, there’s many different sides to a “story” and many different persuasive attempts to get others to side on a specific one. Therefore, dividing us all even more. President Trump’s new enforcement on the illegal immigration policy has caused a mixed and competing uproar with all people of this country.

            Washington Post author Kelly Riddell came out with an article titled, “Social warriors, sometimes.” This side is told by a strong conservative news source and will be addressing the issue of a 14-year-old girl getting gang raped while attending high school by two illegal immigrants. This article explains the gruesome details of this case and compares them to the Duke Lacrosse Team’s brutal gang rape scandal and also the University of Virginia’s “Jackie” scandal. Of the three that were reported only one was true, which was the 14-year-old high school girl who was raped (Riddell, 2017).  The media was quick to cover the scandals of Duke’s Lacrosse Team and the University of Virginia’s scandal that were both proven not guilty. Yet with the case of the gang rape for this girl was barely covered and was proven true.

            “Yet, the story has received scant attention in the mainstream media. Yes, conservative-leaning Fox News has covered it exhaustively, but The New York Times and CNN only gave it a mention after it came up at a White House press briefing this week. The major broadcast Networks of CBS, NBC, and ABC, haven’t given it any airtime in their nightly news coverage” (Riddell, 2017).  This article gives the readers all of the facts of the scandals in the past and the real case that happened in silence. “It might become clear, liberals are social-justice warriors for some, but not for all. That they pick sides. So where’s the justice in that?” (Riddell, 2017).

            US News author, Gabriel Levy wrote an article titled, “Trump’s Immigration Speech Backfires With Latinos.” This side is told be a strong liberal perspective regarding President Trump’s attempt to win over the Hispanic voter population and support. "When I met Donald Trump he was going to approach this issue with a realistic plan, a compassionate plan, with a plan that was not disruptive to the immigrants that were here that were not lawbreakers. What I heard today was not realistic and not compassionate,” said Jacob Monty, a member of Trump's Hispanic Advisory Council. This article only really gives one side of the story, making Trump appear to be the “bad, white supremacist” instead of allowing the audience to make their own opinions. This article did a great job o explaining all that Trump did not do and had very little to say about what he accomplished.

            Both of these articles are a great example of todays divided America. Even though the US News article was before the election in September of 2016, you can already see the divide in America take place.

           

Work Cited:

Levy, G. (2016, September 01). Trump's Immigration Speech Backfires With Latinos. Retrieved April 04, 2017, from https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-01/trumps-immigration-speech-backfires-with-latinos

Riddell, K. (2017, March 23). Social warriors, sometimes. Retrieved April 04, 2017, from http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/23/rape-at-maryland-high-school-shows-need-for-greate/