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Belt (LJW), July 12 2004

Text Source

Belt, Mike. "Professor points to ethnic cleansing here at home." Lawrence Journal-World (Lawrence, KS: Lawrence Journal-World; http://www.ljworld.com. July 12 2004): http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/175478.

Message Unit 1 - an example of patriotized history

core myths:

benevolence myth

unpatriotized history:

The US had been sponsoring ethnic atrocities against the Kurds in Turkey and against the Palestinian Arabs in Palestine.


The US had sponsored ethnic violence by other people against Serbs in Yugoslavia, although the US had also committed much violence itself there as well.

message (of patriotized history):

Absent: the US had been sponsoring ethnic cleansing atrocities elsewhere in the world.

patriotic change (of history):

act removal (US)

technique:

text:

Americans shudder when they hear about ethnic cleansing atrocities elsewhere in the world, but less than a century ago something similar was happening in the United States, a Kansas University professor says.

...

"These, to me, seem to be examples of ethnic cleansing," Tuttle said. "I'm going to try to frame it in that context and compare it to Rwanda and Sudan. It's the kind of ethnic cleansing we've seen in Bosnia."

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