UC Berkeley Protest: Logos

The UC Berkeley protest signs use logos to show their audience the reason Yiannopoulos should not be speaking at the University’s free speech event. The article quotes some of the other protesters, saying “Hate speech is not free speech.” This delves into the technicalities of free speech. Under the constitution, free speech is a human right against the government, however the government is allowed to get involved when the speech is either hateful, invokes violence, is slander, or is obscene. Yiannopoulos is known for being very controversial, attacking celebrities on twitter, like Leslie Jones, as mentioned in the article. His obscene speech in the past as fueled the desire for so many students to take a stand against him coming to the campus, resulting in the protest poster that yells “NO!” to show the passion against him in a simple but strong way. The “Refusefascism.org” website also supports the logos by providing a way for people to become informed on fascism and see the connection between that idea and Yiannopoulos, making their message against him supported additional information. Using strong forms of both logos and pathos makes the message against Yiannopoulos clear, as it is the protester's passion (pathos) that catches the audience’s attention, and the logos helps make the argument more intriguing.

Kaitlyn Francis

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  1. UnknownOctober 9, 2017 at 6:31 PM

    I think it's interesting how the logical appeal in this protest is almost indistinguishable from the appeal to pathos. Whilst you might not associate logos with protests at first, I feel as if it may be used after the fact to justify the protest.

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  2. UnknownOctober 11, 2017 at 9:41 PM

    I think there is somewhat of an overlap between the appeal to logos and pathos. Yiannopoulos definitely appeals to students' pathos, but logos is also embedded.

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