In Defense Of Prejudice Analysis

Prejudice is a controversial matter in which speakers like to blame it on the whole population. It's a way to be biased and talk for the population about the “common belief.” Writer of “One Nation Slightly Divisible,” David Brook, tries to control the audience’s minds by using “we” in his article. Similarly, Jonathan Rauch, writer of “In Defense of Prejudice: Why Incendiary Speech Must Be Protected” argues in a biased point of view in an unique way to attract audience to believe his personal view towards prejudice. Both authors also quote other writers and professionals with bias opinions as as well. Brook and Rauch tend to talk to the reader, ask questions and at the same time answering the questions for the reader, deciding the reader's point of view towards the subject questioned.

Brooks allows the reader to connect with him and win the reader to his side to succeed as a writer.In the article “One Nation Slightly Divisible,” David Brook quotes other a sociologist to convince the
Questions for the reader to think about their own opinion such as "We all feel we know prejudice when we see it. But do we?". Instead Rauch answers the question for the reader with a biased opinion, deciding for the reader without giving the reader the chance to have their own opinion and point of view. In "One Nation Slightly Divisible" David Brook also uses direct questions to the reader to connect and give a bias approach. "Do we have one national conversation and one national culture? Are we loyal to the same institutions and the same values?" Brook seems to ask the reader more questions than Rauch but uses the same strategy to convince the reader. Similarly, Brook doesn't give the reader a chance to decide and gives the reader a bias