Bin Laden Rhetoric Analysis

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In the process of caricaturing bin Laden as an evil terrorist, long-standing stereotypes of Muslims and Middle Easterners—the populations for most of my ethnographic fieldwork—come into sharper focus. Cultural markers like beards, dress, and dialect merge with negative images of brutality, bestiality, pornography, gross behavior, and stupidity. Thus, many of the games and cartoons show bin Laden or some generic "Arab" wearing a turban and robe, associated with women in full-length veils, taunting Americans with obscene gestures, defecating, engaging in sex with goats, or stupidly exposing himself to be easily shot. The othering in these games is quite consciously an exaggeration and for that reason highlights the deeply shared, even if not …show more content…
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