The article I chose for this blog commentary was “At GOP Debate, Trump the Only Candidate Willing to Pause Muslim Immigration” This article caught my eye because it’s yet another example of someone in a position of power spreading a culture of fear mainly based on stereotypes, generalization and assumption. It also caught my eye, because this is very personally related to me. I myself am a Muslim, and even though I was born here, both my parents are immigrants to this country. Many of my close friends and people that I know are Muslim immigrants as well. Since statements such as the ones Trump makes on this issue attack me, my family, and people that I know, I’m naturally biased against what he has to say. This may keep me from being entirely objective. …show more content…
She states the candidates positions, simply whether they agree or not, and nothing further on what they had to say. She also mentions numbers from Pew’s Research related to the amount of Muslim immigrants the United states has been allowing and visas that have been given to them. “The U.S. admits more than 100,000 Muslim immigrants every single year on a permanent lifetime basis” She doesn’t necessarily state whether these numbers are good or bad, she leaves it up to the reader. Because of this, I would say this article is mainly conveying descriptive knowledge, and not much explanatory or normative knowledge. in fact, the only normative information “of what should happen” is the position of the candidates on whether or not they will put a pause to this