Preacher Bob is a man who goes to different college campuses to “preach” for a living. His method of preaching however is slightly different from average. His goal when he goes to these college campuses is not to change anyone’s mind or get anyone on his side, it is to try to make someone mad enough to punch them so he can sue them and make money. Yes, this is his full time job. But does his argument style actually work? Yes and no, the reason behind it is to make money and he has done that but he doesn’t exactly make people agree with his argument.
On Wednesday September 29th someone like Preacher Bob came to Oklahoma State’s campus and had the attention of the entire student body. Even though his arguments and ideas were ridiculous people still argued and listened to him preach the whole time. So this argument style obviously works to some extent because he is getting the attention of a lot of people. This style of argument is called counter-hetoric. Counter-hetoric is a style of argument that is obnoxious and offensive and usually is trying to emphasize their original point. Using this style of argument Preacher Bob and others like him are trying to pick at areas that people really care about by going to college campuses in the Bible Belt and preaching and offending people. Once they know they are offending the students and becoming "popular" and widespread with their outrageous and offensive ideas and manor of "preaching" them, they then know they are doing what they set out to do. Their manor of arguing seemed to change people’s views, but not in a way to make them believe or not believe him but to make them not really listen to his words. In a sense he psyches people out of believing him even if they actually do believe him.
In conclusion I think that this counter-hetoric, Preacher Bob’s style of argument, is effective because it gets the attention of people he wants attention from. To prove the point that it works, this could not be his full time job if it didn’t work. If Preacher Matt was to come back to Oklahoma State’s campus I’m sure he would again get the attention he came for.
Counter-rhetoric.
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