Rhetorical Analysis Of Lionel Beehner's Syrian Refugee Crisis
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In “Syria crisis echoes 1930s anti-Semitism”, Lionel Beehner logically addresses how the United States of America confronts the Syrian refugee crisis. Beehner argues that the Syrian refugee conflict is similar to the anti-Semitism Jews faced in the 1930s. He also argues that those against immigration “has always been fueled by racism, nativism, and fear” (Beehner) and that the U.S. should do more to help the Syrian refugees. Beehner logically proves his points with analogies, a rebuttal, and a hypothera. Lionel Beehner uses many analogies throughout his column. To defend his argument that the Syrian refugee conflict is alike to the anti-Semitism Jews faced in the 1930s, Beehner uses historical references of the United States’ approach