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US: Liberty, Guns and Gender
Med afsæt i Charlie Kirks mord ser vi på frihed i USA, særligt i forbindelse med ytringsfrihed, retten til at bære våben og kvinders rolle. Den stærke nationalkonservative højrefløj i USA danner afsæt for en undersøgelse af den politiske splittelse, der ser ud til at vokse og vokse i USA i dag. Vi ser tilbage i historien for at undersøge de friheds- og lighedsidealer, nationen blev grundlagt på, for dermed at opnå en bedre forståelse for både forholdet til skydevåden, religion og de forskellige frihedsidealer, der hersker. Vi har ligeledes fokus på topartisystemet, som forklaringsmulighed når den kommer til den voksende splittelse. I denne diskussion inddrages pointer om sociale mediers betydning for den politiske debat og den øgede polarisering. Vi arbejder med den stærke hvide mand som koncept og sætter ham overfor kvinder generelt, samt den oplevede trussel fra indvandring og race.
Forløbet har primært fokus på non-fiction og analysebegreber til denne type tekster, men der inddrages også fiktion i form af kortfilm.
Vi arbejder videre med: Begreber fra Toulmin's argumentationsmodel: Claim, grounds, warrant, backing, counterargument, rebuttal, Ciceros pentagram, appelformerne og retoriske virkemidler.
Vi arbejder desuden mere indgående med 'style of writing', herunder:
Level of formality
Tone and style
Sentence length and structure
Word choice (and connotations)
Word classes
Rhetorical devices
Key words (ikke udtømmende):
Family values, Christian Conservatism, patriarchy
Woke, wokeism, feminism
Progressive v. conservative
Individual freedom v. tradition
Religion v. secularism
Declaration of Independence, US Constitution
Division v. unity
Liberty
Unalienable rights
Equality
The American Dream
Federal government v. state government (history: Anti-federalists v. Federalists)
Polarization
Democracy
Free Speech
Social media and desensitization
Gun regulation/Gun rights/Gun control
Kernetekster:
Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence (uddrag, 1776)
US Constitution: Preamble + Bill of Rights (1789/1791)
David French: "Divided we Fall" (foreword, 2020)
Wayne LaPierre: An Important Message from Wayne LaPierre (www.nra.com, 2022)
Craig Nason: I survived Columbine 23 years ago. Is America finally tired of all this death? (Jun 1, 2022)
Michael Govier, Will McCormack: If Anything Happens I love You (2020)
Beth Ann Fennelly: "I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them" (New York Times, Aug. 8, 2022)
David Joy: "Gun Culture is My Culture. And I fear for What It Has Become" (The New York Times Magazine, Apr. 8, 2018)
Supplerende materiale:
Dorthe Hjort Jensen: "Ideas that Shaped a Nation" + "Issues that Divide: Guns" in "Liberty, Guns & Babies" (Columbus, 2024),
Untold History: "What is the Constitution?" (video, 2021)
Belinda Stutzman (Ted-Ed): "A 3-minute guide to the Bill of Rights" (video, 2012)
"The Law of Group Polarization: David French" (video, 2022)
Video summing up Charlie Kirk's Memorial: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/key-takeaways-charlie-kirks-memorial-service/story?id=125802466 (2025)
Videos from 'The Sandy Hook Promise':
"Monsters under the bed" (2015) (2:56 min)
"Evan" (2017) (2:28 min)
"Back to School Essentials" (2020) (1:06 min)
"Teenage Dream" (2022) (2:31 min)
"BBC: Inside a US training course to arm teachers" (video, 2018)
Barbara F. Walter: "Is the US Headed Towards Another Civil War?", TED-talk, august 2023.
DR Genstart: "Ingen tykke generaler" (podcast, 8. okt 2025)
"Texas School Shooting: The gun control debate continues" (Sky News, June 3, 2022)
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