In doing so, this essay challenges the basis on which rhetorical scholars have interpreted the historical use of parrhēsia (or frank and fearless speech) in political movements that aspire to violent intervention. In this essay, I examine the growing archive of white supremacist terrorist manifestos to identify how political extremists share a performative ethics inciting them to make manifest the “truths” of their selves through violent word and deed. This form of intermediated consubstantiality enables what we call identification by transitive property, which allows for a detached veneration of troops rather than subjective identification.
players in a way that enables their identification with both citizen-fans and soldiers, while constraining citizen-fans from identifying directly with soldiers. It does this by rhetorically constructing N.F.L.
campaign rhetorically constructs an intermediated consubstantiality that buffers identification between citizens and soldiers through the intermediating presence of N.F.L. By examining several discursive strategies at play within the N.F.L.’s Salute to Service (S.T.S.) campaign we theorize an interesting extension of Kenneth Burke’s concept of identification. military has evolved into a cross-promotional symbiosis. As both sport and war become increasingly mediated experiences in the U.S., the decades-long relationship between professional football and the U.S.
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