Reading Ms. Bowra’s article I found it interesting that within the first paragraph she chose to seemingly contradict the purpose of her writing. In an article that is meant to change the approach of millennial age conservatives when attempting debate with their liberal or left leaning peers, she seemingly foregoes the mission of her writing by promptly using language that is typically meant to be derogatory and belittle her liberal and left leaning peers. She commits herself to behaving in a way she will only later warn against. Ms. Bowra not only exemplifies the superior attitude she later condemns by both disassociating herself from the so called “special snowflakes” of her generation that revel in their not so unique individuality, expression, …show more content…
There are still a number of glaring contradictions and weaknesses within the argument of the author. One such weakness is in the author advice to her target audience of conservative readers on utilizing facts that support their claim or cause stating, “Facts are on our side; conservative policies are proven to work more efficiently in alleviating poverty and encouraging success regardless of one’s background.” Her proclamation of this evidence isn’t followed up by any sort of supportive data or link to reliable sources. Ms. Bowra simply claims there is evidence that exist but fails to provide any further information than what is stated rendering her statement redundant. Prior to the unsupported claims of facts, Ms. Bowra alludes to the existence of extremist college professors who give out lower grades to conservative students due to their differing views from the professors own. While I have no doubt that such an incident has most likely occurred at some point in time, somewhere, the author’s failure to reference a specific incident leaves another claim seemingly unsubstantiated. These unsupported claims only weaken potential effectiveness of the piece even