5/26

hope kiyo and rabs mother in law is fine

so today rab couldnt come to class
a guy name sylvan, was it? forgot how to spell his name, came to place rab
thank you for coming!
anyway, in his class we mainly watched a US election ad commercials
it was very very interesting
what we read in birk were exactly shown in the commercial
there were many many selecting, slanted and charged languages
each pic had many messages that would attack obama or mccain in direct and indirect way
what was most interesting was in obamas commercial attacking mccain
it said mccain cannot use computer nor can he send emails
but that is because mccain was taken hostage during vietnam war for 5 years and were tortured
broke his arms and fingers
so now he cannot use his hands well
but because many people doesnt know this fact, by watching that commercial many would think that mccain is out-of-date, cannot adapt to new things

it is important to be critical, but without knowing a back story it may be impossbile to point out those biases