Prompt one
- Plessy vs Ferguson matches Swales criteria list for a discourse community because a discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals. this relates back to the judges and lawyers being apart of a discourse community believing that passengers of different races be separated and have different highways then whites, or sentenced to jail. them sharing the same beliefs and passing their beliefs down to their children for generations and generations to come is how they build discourse communities it is a familiar language or act to them and all that they know.
Prompt two
- they used their government and constitution to spread laws and regulations based off their beliefs. they raised their children to believe these things who were taught to raise their children the same way. they had town meetings and local radio stations or any media or normalized there beliefs and language. people who didn’t follow in their lead got severely punished.
Prompt Three
- i feel that the discourse community had enough power and resources to enforce any belief at the time because the people who would vote for this or agree were all apart of this discourse community. so they created a way that no one outside of their community could argue or challenge it if it was the law. so they took their power and made their beliefs legal. that way it was world wide that races should be segregated.
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