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- You don’t name-call: Of course you do! When you say that someone is kind, male, a Christian, a badass, a gent, a Warriors fan, a CPA, realtor or doctor, you’re name-calling.
- People hate to be called names: We love a label that makes it easy for people to recognize us. We even dress to be stereotyped like that, sending social mating calls to like-minded people and people who could use a person like us.
- Negative name-calling is always bad: Is it OK to call Stalin an evil man? A con artist who has ripped off everyone on your block a con artist? Should you call a pedophile a pedophile?
- Name-callers are bad people so you can ignore what they say: “Name-caller” is a name. If someone calls you a name-caller, they’re a name-caller.
- Introduction: Presidential Nicknames
- Name-Calling: The Pejorative Use of Epithets
- The Origin of Epithets: A Fitting Name
- Why Do We Name Call?
- From Name-Calling to Scapegoating
During his 2016 and 2020 US presidential campaigns, Donald Trump pioneered a unique rhetorical strategy that some argue was a key political tactic and reason for his successes. Watch this video to find out what this strategy was and how he used it to his advantage: While one conventionally assumes political debates to be the arena of relatively civ...
According to Delwiche (2018), is a propaganda technique that was identified by the Institute of Propaganda Analysis in 1938. It is powerful because it “links a person, or idea, to a negative symbol. The propagandist who uses this technique hopes that the audience will reject the person or the idea on the basis of the negative symbol, instead of loo...
Epithets that use attributive adjectives before the noun, e.g. ‘Happy Jack’, focus our attention on the adjective by leading with it. Since it’s the first thing we hear, the adjective has definitive power. Epithets with predicative adjectives after the noun, e.g. ‘William the Bald’ may be powerful when they use definite articles like ‘the’. The use...
Name-calling has its genesis in primordial human social and psychological practices that structure social reality by creating insider and outsider identities. Humans have traditionally structured societies by creating groups – e.g. tribes, religions, or nations – defined by who its members are. Having a shared understanding of who they are not allo...
Name-calling can lead to scapegoating, which is blaming a person or group that cannot defend itself for a problem they did not actually cause. One of the most infamous examples of this comes from the 1930s and 1940s, where Hitler used this technique to unite Germans and rouse hatred in their hearts against the Jews, them for Germany’s defeat in the...
Feb 19, 2020 · Name-calling, says J. Vernon Jensen, is "attaching to a person, group, institution, or concept a label with a heavily derogatory connotation. It usually is an incomplete, unfair, and misleading characterization" (Ethical Issues in the Communication Process, 1997).
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Apr 7, 2023 · Results of a new study demonstrate that name-calling in politics frequently has the opposite of its intended effect, with respondents evaluating the assailant negatively after witnessing the disparaging remark.
Name Calling: Propagandists use this technique to create fear and arouse prejudice by using negative words (bad names) to create an unfavorable opinion or hatred against a group, beliefs, ideas or institutions they would have us denounce.
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Sep 17, 2019 · People tell us examples of being discriminated against because of their name - and we ask the experts how to tackle this kind of bias.
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Nov 9, 2016 · In fact, researchers have long noted how the classes of derogatory terms for men and women have certain skewed characteristics and reveal quite a lot about how we socially build up gender, and then how we make each other maintain these gender characteristics through the nasty language of invective.
