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Annotation Practice
For this assignment, you will annotate an article, a copy of which is pasted below. There are three steps involved. Please read the instructions and follow each step carefully. Before proceeding, turn on Track Changes under the Review tab in Word
. Be sure your Track Changes shows All Markup not just a Simple Markup.
Step 1: Predict and preview
After reading the title and glancing over the text, what do you think the text will be about? What do you understand about the text from the title? What do you know already about this topic? What questions do you have about the text? Type your response to the preview questions here
: I think the text is about mass murderers and how they get to the point of planning and following through with their attacks. I understand that the text has something to do with a system of ideas and ideals that form a basis
of economic or political theory or
policy. I do not know a lot about this topic at this point in time before reading the text. A question I have about the text is what are the different features of ideology and how do we see them in the world today?
Step 2: Read, summarize, and annotate
As you read the article, use the Track Changes function to annotate the text below as follows:
Summarize
. Double-click the last word
of a paragraph, and then click the New Comment button under the Review tab to add a comment box. Type your one sentence
summary (paraphrase) of the paragraph in the box. Summarize every paragraph in the essay. Group short paragraphs of the same topic together for summarizing.
Define Vocabulary
. Double-click any word you do not understand, click New Comment, and provide a definition. Dictionary.com
is a good and quick resource for this. NOTE: Only put the definition for the word in its exact context here (not all the definitions).
Annotate
. Use the functions in Microsoft Word to highlight sections or words and underline sentences or sections that are important, just like you would if you were annotating a hard copy of the essay. Use the following key to annotate your text:
Highlight the main ideas of paragraphs, including the thesis
Underline
supporting details or interesting quotes/facts/ideas
Bold
any counterarguments.
Step Three: Answering questions about the text
After you have finished reading and annotating the text, return to this step and answer the following questions. Type your responses directly beneath each question
.
1.
Who is the audience and how do you know? Provide at least three quotes that support your
answer.
a.
I believe the audience for this article is those interested in learning more about ideology and how it relates to mass shootings which could be a generalized audience. Some quotes that
support this theory in my opinion are:
i.
“Many of today’s mass murderers write manifestoes.”
ii.
“"They are inspired to kill by a shared ideology, an ideology that they hope to spread through a wave of terror.”
iii.
“The terrorists dream of a pure, static world. But the only thing that’s static is death..”
2.
What is your response to this reading? What did the article add to your knowledge or understanding of this topic?
a.
I believe this article is very info
rmative and interesting. I believe this article helps to dig into the mind of a mass murderer and knowing that most of them write manifestoes. This article added a different perspective and an inside into mass murderers and their manifestoes as well as an understanding of ideology.
Article to be used:
“The Ideology of Hate and How to Fight It: The Battle for the Soul of Our Culture,” by David Brooks, The New York Times
, 5 Aug., 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/opinion/el-
paso-dayton-shooting.html
Many of today’s mass murderers write manifestoes
. They are not killing only because they’ve been psychologically damaged by trauma. They’re not killing only because they are pathetically lonely and deeply pessimistic about their own lives. They are inspired to kill by a shared ideology, an ideology that they hope to spread through a wave of terror
.
The clearest expression of that ideology was written by the man charged with a killing spree in Christchurch, New Zealand
. His manifesto has been cited by other terrorists; the suspect in this weekend’s El Paso mass shooting cited it in his own manifesto. It’s not entirely what you’d expect. At one point its author writes about his travels around the world: “Everywhere I travelled, barring a few small exceptions, I was treated wonderfully, often as a guest and even as a friend. The varied cultures of the world greeted me with warmth and compassion, and I very much enjoyed nearly every moment I spent with them.” The ideology he goes on to champion is highly racial, but it’s not classic xenophobia or white supremacy. It’s first feature is essentialism
. The most important thing you can know about a person is his or her race. A white sees the world as a white and a Latino sees it as a Latino. Identity is racial
.
The second feature is separatism
. Races are healthy when they are pure and undiluted. The world is healthy when people of different races live apart. The world is
diseased when races mix. “I am against race mixing because it destroys genetic diversity and creates identity problems,” the El Paso suspect wrote.
The third feature is racial Darwinism
. Races are locked in a Darwinian struggle in which they try to out-reproduce their rivals. Currently, the black and brown races are stronger than the white race and are on the verge of obliterating it through invasion. Immigrants, the Christchurch suspect wrote, come “from a culture with higher fertility rates, higher social trust and strong robust traditions that seek to occupy my peoples lands and ethnically replace my own people.” If we allow them into our country, brown immigrants will overwhelm whites just as Europeans overwhelmed the Native Americans centuries ago. As the El Paso suspect put it, “The natives didn’t take the invasion of Europeans seriously, and now what’s left is just a shadow of what was.” Immigration is white replacement. Immigration is white genocide
.
This is not an ideology that rises out of white self-confidence but rather white insecurity.
This ideology is an extreme form of a broader movement — antipluralism — that now comes in many shapes. Trumpian nationalists, authoritarian populists and Islamic jihadists are different versions of antipluralism. These movements are reactions against the diversity, fluidity and interdependent nature of modern life. Antipluralists yearn for a return to clear borders, settled truths and stable identities. They kill for a fantasy, a world that shines in their imaginations but never existed in real life. The struggle between pluralism and antipluralism is one of the great death struggles of our time, and it is being fought on every front
.
We pluralists do not believe that human beings can be reduced to a single racial label
. Each person is a symphony of identities. Our lives are rich because each of us contains multitudes. Pluralists believe in integration, not separation. We treasure precisely the integration that sends the antipluralists into panic fits. A half century ago, few marriages crossed a color line. Now, 17 percent of American marriages are interracial.
Pluralists are always expanding the definition of “us,” not constricting it
. Eighty years ago, Protestants, Catholics and Jews did not get along, so a new category was created, Judeo-
Christian, which brought formerly feuding people into a new “us.” Thirty years ago, rivalries were developing between blacks and Hispanics, and so the category “people of color” was used to create a wider “us
.”
Pluralists believe that culture mixing has always been and should be the human condition
. All cultures define and renew themselves through encounter. A pure culture is a dead culture while an amalgam culture is a creative culture. The very civilization the white separatists seek to preserve was itself a product of earlier immigration waves.
Finally, pluralism is the adventure of life
. Pluralism is not just having diverse people coexist in one place. It’s going out and getting into each other’s lives. It’s a constant dialogue that has no end because there is no single answer to how we should live. Life in a pluralistic society is an ever-moving spiral. There are the enemies of pluralism ripping it apart and the weavers of community binding it together. There is no resting spot. It’s change, fluidity and movement all the way down
.
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The terrorists dream of a pure, static world
. But the only thing that’s static is death, which is why they are so pathologically drawn to death. Pluralism is about movement, interdependence and life. The struggle ahead is about competing values as much as it is about controlling guns and healing damaged psyches. Pluralism thrives when we name what the terrorists hate about us, and live it out
.
David Brooks has been a columnist with The Times
since 2003. He is the author of “The Road to Character” and, most recently, “The Second Mountain.” @nytdavidbrooks