Below you will see my vision for my dinner party. The issue being discussed is constitutive rhetoric (persuasion through adherence to an identity that is personified by a symbol). In the contemporary political climate rhetorical symbols that have come to define an identity are common place. The dinner party seeks to discuss the function of constitutive rhetoric through the case study of political rhetoric in Florida regarding the removal of curriculum and texts that represent the history of oppression that people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community faced. The table is making the argument that these histories are being removed because they don't fit within the constitutive narrative developed in the dominant political discourse. By removing inconvenient truths the established identity is easier to adhere to and ultimately achieve persuasion.
