Making arguments review
Critical Review
Native Americans should be respected. In his work titled “Making arguments,” Ward Churchill makes an argument about racism and discrimination against Native Americans. The writer in the first part of the essay rants about how sports teams in America mock and discriminate Natives. In his ranting we can find a couple of fallacies. Churchill, in my opinion, does not make his argument good enough to persuade the reader to agree with his views. In the beginning of the essay, Ward Churchill starts ranting about how football teams in the NFL and the NCAA have words in their names that could be offensive to Native Americans. Then, Ward goes on to say that since some of the names of football teams could be considered offensive then it’s okay to do the same to other minorities. He made the example of Wisconsin “Wetbacks”. This is a great example of a logical fallacy found in Churchill’s essay. A logical fallacy is considered a mistake in reasoning. In this piece Churchill commits the fallacy. He believes that Native Americans are being mistreated or are being discriminated against, and then he tries to persuade the reader to adopt his position, which is based on a bad piece of reasoning. There’s a saying that goes “two wrongs don’t make a right”, and it applies perfectly in this situation. Churchill tells the reader to not go getting “overly sensitive”, now I didn’t get overly sensitive but the argument that he uses is just wrong and idiotic. First off, how are you going to get other groups of people to agree with you when you are attacking them as well? This is not the right way to approach this issue. Racism and discrimination are still very sensitive subjects in America, even to this date. In the second part of the essay, Churchill compares The Jewish holocaust to the killing of Native Americans in America over the centuries. In my opinion the writer makes another fallacy here. These are both very distinct situations. The Jewish holocaust in
Native Americans should be respected. In his work titled “Making arguments,” Ward Churchill makes an argument about racism and discrimination against Native Americans. The writer in the first part of the essay rants about how sports teams in America mock and discriminate Natives. In his ranting we can find a couple of fallacies. Churchill, in my opinion, does not make his argument good enough to persuade the reader to agree with his views. In the beginning of the essay, Ward Churchill starts ranting about how football teams in the NFL and the NCAA have words in their names that could be offensive to Native Americans. Then, Ward goes on to say that since some of the names of football teams could be considered offensive then it’s okay to do the same to other minorities. He made the example of Wisconsin “Wetbacks”. This is a great example of a logical fallacy found in Churchill’s essay. A logical fallacy is considered a mistake in reasoning. In this piece Churchill commits the fallacy. He believes that Native Americans are being mistreated or are being discriminated against, and then he tries to persuade the reader to adopt his position, which is based on a bad piece of reasoning. There’s a saying that goes “two wrongs don’t make a right”, and it applies perfectly in this situation. Churchill tells the reader to not go getting “overly sensitive”, now I didn’t get overly sensitive but the argument that he uses is just wrong and idiotic. First off, how are you going to get other groups of people to agree with you when you are attacking them as well? This is not the right way to approach this issue. Racism and discrimination are still very sensitive subjects in America, even to this date. In the second part of the essay, Churchill compares The Jewish holocaust to the killing of Native Americans in America over the centuries. In my opinion the writer makes another fallacy here. These are both very distinct situations. The Jewish holocaust in