Conservative voices dominate public-spirited rhetoric in America
Evidence
The irony in the United States is that while community-minded volunteers, empathetic social service workers, and debate-oriented “humanists” try hard to avoid talking about the common good, free marketeers and religious fundamentalists use the languate of obligation, solidarity, and the common good to advocate private schooling, private health care, private charity instead of welfare. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 165
Categorization
- XREF: Contradicts the common assumption that out-group threat or public-spirited language builds solidarity — here solidarity language serves privatizing ends, relevant to the reader’s contrary thesis. — connects to: Conservative rhetoric frames both terrorists and their explainers as threats to America — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 891; Conservative ‘common culture’ rhetoric is itself ethnic cheerleading; Political groups adopt nationalist rhetoric opportunistically — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 159 (+3 more)
Related
- Conservative rhetoric frames both terrorists and their explainers as threats to America (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Conservative ‘common culture’ rhetoric is itself ethnic cheerleading
#expands(0.85) - Political groups adopt nationalist rhetoric opportunistically
#expands(0.80) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 159 - Conservative rhetoric frames both terrorists and their explainers as threats to America
#exemplifies(0.75) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 891 - Modern conservative backlash stems from threatened groups fearing dispossession, not policy disagreement
#expands(0.72) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 648 - Promise Keepers blended militaristic and sports rhetoric within a conservative political agenda
#exemplifies(0.72) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 356 - Liberal and conservative participants responded similarly to demographic threat
#qualifies(0.70) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 106