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During a recent conversation with a BYU professor, I casually expressed my admiration for presidential candidate Kamala Harris. This professor politely listened and nodded. Then my professor said something that has haunted me ever since: “I just don’t like her. She is not a very likable person.” This statement, coming from a woman, about another woman, took me by complete surprise, especially when I consider the profound unlikability of Kamala’s Republican opponent. In fact, a majority of Trump voters seem to feel that his extreme “unlikability” is a feature, and not a bug. Other Trump voters, who find their party nominee morally or personally repugnant, claim that he is better qualified and therefore “hold their noses” as they vote in his favor. So, what exactly was my professor referring to when she described Kamala Harris as “unlikable”, and why should that matter in the slightest? Is it possible that “likability” only matters because Kamala Harris is a woman?
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As we were all taught in our freshman writing course, rhetoric is composed of ethos, logos, and pathos. For the purpose of this article, let us consider the meaning of the Aristotelian Tripartition found in The Art of Rhetoric:
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