Student Protests in the 1960s

The passion within the students at UC Berkeley is the biggest part of the protest against Milo Yiannopoulus. The sign used a bold “NO!” that represents that passion within the students protesting and also brings out an emotional intensity with the large letters and exclamation point. The creator of this sign displays a message in such a simple, yet extremely bold and loud way, and this uses the rhetoric of pathos by making allowing others to see the sign, and feel the same resentment towards Yiannopoulus.. The protesters want others who view this poster to feel the same as they do so they can get more support against the guest speaker coming to their school and make an even bigger statement against him with the more people by their side. Connecting Yiannopoulus to fascism with the bottom half of the poster also evokes pathos. The audience continues to feel that resentment because they associate Yiannopoulus with such a negative and radical idea. They also add the negativity to fascis...

The exigence of the UC Berkeley committing a protest for Milos Yiannopoulos was due for Yiannopoulo's long history of using racist and offensive behavior and commentary towards religion. For anyone that is unaware of Milos Yiannopoulos, Milos Yiannopoulos is a British commentator, businessman, journalist, and an advocate for the Alt-Right. The kairos of UC Berkeley relies in protesters feeling the urgency to fight back a speaker with objectionable views. California is a state full of Leftists and advocacy for Equality, and it is also commonly a blue state, so the protesters, of course, will not side with guest speaker Yiannopoulos and his hateful rhetoric against people that are not like him. To back up this article, Tina Nguyen, author of Milos Yiannopoulos Is Starting A New Ugly, For-Profit Troll Circus , instills a quote by Yiannopoulos that Milos Inc, a company Yiannopoulos endorses, "would be dedicated to making the lives of journalists, professors, politicians, feminist...

The "Nixon Nazi" poster is a protest poster from 1970 posted on a college campus. It is clear that the artist's intent was to capture the hearts of any student that saw this poster. The initial sight that is seen is the infamous symbol of the Nazi party from World War II on its signature blaring red background. The use of this symbol was to grab the eye and immediately incite negative feelings such as anger or deep pity. The next element of this poster is what the author put in to spark more thinking on the topic. The element is the appearance of (then) President Nixon's name four times; replacing the four thick inner bands of the original symbol. Considering that the audience would be passing, possibly busy, college students, this layered attempt works in the artist's favor. When walking by this poster, a college student may do a double take, stop to look at the poster, and proceed to take in the poster in its entirety. The artist intent shows in the poster and t...

The political involvement of college students thrived in the frantic America of the 60s as enrollment in higher education reached an all time high . There are two powerful moments of exigence that prompted the ideas behind the 1970 poster and others like it: the Kent State massacre and Nixon's reaction to the resulting student strike. Nearing the end of the Vietnam War, Nixon announced that yet another set of invasions against Vietnam would take place. In the four days after this news broke, 500+ Kent State students rallied against Nixon's continued war efforts. In the final day (May 4, 1970), the Ohio State National Guard fired into a crowd of unarmed students in an effort to diffuse the commotion, killing 4 and injuring 9. This physical attempt to censor students that were only trying to insert themselves into America's political sphere triggered a nationwide student strike . Nixon unsuccessfully tried to commiserate with the students in a statement five days after the s...

Students at UC Berkeley were protesting against Milo Yiannopoulos coming to campus and giving a speech to the student body. Since he is someone with an incredibly controversial history, many students were against him coming to the school, and came together in protest against the school’s choice to hold the event. The photograph shows students holding a simple sign that screams “No!” and “Refuse Fascism.org.” This sign was used in protest against Yiannopoulos for the school administration to see in hopes of them cancelling the event, in which they did. The audience of this protest sign was not just the administration to tell them “No!” to hosting Yiannopoulos, but the audience was also the rest of the student body, targeting more so those students who may support Yiannopoulos. With the poster, students promoted an anti-fascist website, targeting the audience of people who support and like Yiannopoulos as “fascists,” claiming him to be one as well. Making a bold statement ensures the a...