Friday, May 6, 2011

DailyKos: Complaining about context without providing any


This one stands out though:
Breitbart is a master of taking quotes out of context, deletion of what doesn't serve his purpose, and remixing to achieve totally different meaning. For example he has me saying:

o Breitbart's version:
"Violence is a tactic and it's to be used when it's the appropriate tactic."


o The real version:
After students had watched a film on the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, they were discussing nonviolence. I said, "One guy in the film. . . said 'violence is a tactic, and it's to be used when it’s the appropriate tactic.'. . . " The class proceeded to discuss and debate this
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This, of course, isn't the context at all.

The context of the specific question, not provided by Kos, is that:
1. Violence was effectively used in the past.
2. The specific comment is made that "no tactics are off the table."
3. Another student says "when they're willing to give up violence, I will too" after a student says that economic tactics are the right way to go.
4. Ancel follows that comment about endorsing violence up by further approvingly citing to a SNCC leader who said that violence is a tactic, to be used when appropriate.
5. The comment is then made, following her direction, that the student "doesn't want to live in this society."
6. The same student then says, I want to take over the state with revolutionary movement which doesn’t exist.
7. Another student then points out to how FDR and MLK were just as radical as these people using violence.
This was always in context. This was always the intent, tone, diction and communicative desire of Judy Ancel: to teach impressionable student that violence was a tactic, to be used when appropriate.

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