Taylor Mali YouTube video

One thing I notice about comedians is they are totally rhetorical. I disagree with everything he says about teachers, yet it is very hard for me to gather my thoughts or think for 2 seconds because his delivery is very aggressive. With that, the comments on the salary just annoy me. Teachers are the most important part of society in the end and it is harder to teach someone something than it is to just learn it your self.
The end statement/hand gesture, said to me that all he said was satirical and he in fact feels bad for teachers because of their salary, and he in fact supports teachers. I think his techniques were arguing a point he didn't believe in, and he did it well. He did this by getting real into it with his voice tone, aggressive body language, vocabulary, bullet-point structure, and his points against being a teacher. He presented ideas that were neutral, yet he used, like I said, aggressive behavior and delivery to get you to think one way or another. This is minimalism and it says what you want to say without actually going into detail and just presenting the concept or idea. His aggressive delivery was misleading, but in the end, his neutral points that he gave in the middle were all very supportive of the statement I think he was trying to make. He is trying to make us feel the anger, frustration, and criticism teachers are faced with, and in the end, how courageous they are. But he used satire, he used facts, or what I called "neutral-points," some of those were; no kids wants to go to school to go back to school, kids that go go because they couldn't make it. In our society, some opinions become facts, and the way he presented them were as if they were facts. But in the end, when everyone was cheering him on, he flipped them off and he had the last laugh because he expressed that this was not true, and that the audience was stupid for thinking that it was. Bringing up money is an objective way to convince someone, and that was a good way to convince people that teachers follow their heart. He was very well-spoken.
So I guess what I am trying to say, is that Mr.Mali wanted us to think for ourselves in this one. I think it was amazing how he made people agree with him. He did this by talking about teaching in a deragatory way and the audience was cheering him on. In the end, the audience was fooled and yet another great point of how we need teachers and they're stronger than the rest. It was very manipulative in a way because he was so convincing. I did not agree wit him from the get-go, but I couldn't stop to think because it was so aggressive. His main technique was presenting ideas and feeling strongly about them in his speech and voice tone, somethign that is lost in writing. But, what he did was make everyone feel bad and maybe that audience will have a better appreciation for teachers.