Response to reading "The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle"

Burke looks at Hitler's Mein Kampf from a rhetorical perspective in order to portray it as a piece of rhetoric in itself.  Burke view's Hitler's writings as a way to persuade the German people (whom the writings are aimed toward) to "join his side" against the Jews.  Hitler responds to the exigence of society being threatened by the Jews; therefore, he uses his language to point out the specific problems the Jews pose to society.  The first appeal Burke identifies from Hitler's argument is describing the Jews as the 'internationalized devil,' which, through his seemingly logical ideology, seems to be a normal idea to have about the Jewish population; as a result, the German people, particularly those who were not Jewish, could be persuaded to join forces against the Jewish, who, by Hitler's argument, were responsible for the decline of the German economy post World War I.  Another appeal made by Hitler is that the non-Jewish community, especially the Aryans, is far more superior than the Jews, and if they were to mingle with the Jews their perfect bloodlines would be poisoned, having been "seduced" by the Jews, who, as a whole, were personified as being female and able to destroy the lives of those around them.  Also, Hitler appeals to the German public by referring to the issue as having to be "cured," which provides the idea that there is a necessary action that needs to be taken to resolve the "issue" (the Jews) at hand.

A piece of propaganda I wholeheartedly do not agree with is the T-shirt saying "Welcome to America...NOW SPEAK ENGLISH."  This saying is very popular among many people, which is very clear because there are endless amounts of T-shirts and bumper stickers with the same or a similar message.  The exigence that makes this saying possible is the increased amount of immigration by people of Latin American origin (especially from Mexico) into the United States.  The expected audience of those shirts and/or bumper stickers are obviously the people who immigrated to the United States, but more so people who would agree with the message and are against the Spanish-speaking people immigrating to the United States.  The stickers probably continue to hold its followers because people do not take the time to learn the facts about immigration, and immediately make assumptions and form opinions based on inaccurate information.  If those people knew, for example, that the immigration from Mexico actually helps the U.S. economy because the immigrants pay taxes but do not get returns, like American citizens; therefore, they continually pour money into the economy without seeing any benefits.  Also, I think people are afraid to have to expand their knowledge of others and possibly have to adapt to the changes occurring in the U.S. whether they object to them or not.