He starts by saying “I want to put the current situation into context”, meaning he is creating a hypothetical. “As everyone knows” is a part of the hypothetical, meaning that he is expressing the beliefs of the general public. And by general public, I mean that it was a popular opinion among Americans that Hamas needed to be condemned. It’s hard to judge his tone because of his accent, but if you pay attention to the way that he is speaking, when he is speaking about the general public beliefs in the terms of “we”, he is speaking in a very slow and dull way, which in my opinion seems mocking. But as soon as you begins to talk about Israel’s attack on Gaza, the pace of his words picks up very quickly and he’s more punctual with his words and he seems much more interested in what he is saying. This is all part of a larger comparison where he concludes that he places the blame on Israel.
If any of this is truly what was “intended” by the speaker, then that’s just horrible speaking and that person shouldn’t be allowed to speak at such events. Unbelievably terrible method of making a point. A sarcastic tone, and even a strong and clear one, is not a rhetorical tool that serious people should use, let alone to condemn genocide.
He starts by saying “I want to put the current situation into context”, meaning he is creating a hypothetical. “As everyone knows” is a part of the hypothetical, meaning that he is expressing the beliefs of the general public. And by general public, I mean that it was a popular opinion among Americans that Hamas needed to be condemned. It’s hard to judge his tone because of his accent, but if you pay attention to the way that he is speaking, when he is speaking about the general public beliefs in the terms of “we”, he is speaking in a very slow and dull way, which in my opinion seems mocking. But as soon as you begins to talk about Israel’s attack on Gaza, the pace of his words picks up very quickly and he’s more punctual with his words and he seems much more interested in what he is saying. This is all part of a larger comparison where he concludes that he places the blame on Israel.
If any of this is truly what was “intended” by the speaker, then that’s just horrible speaking and that person shouldn’t be allowed to speak at such events. Unbelievably terrible method of making a point. A sarcastic tone, and even a strong and clear one, is not a rhetorical tool that serious people should use, let alone to condemn genocide.
Sure, ok