[Video] Q33: In the last paragraph of passage 1, douglass rejects a counterargument to one of his claims by

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  • A) using emotional language to describe the suffering that has resulted from the policies supported in the counterargument.

  • citing a universal characteristic that makes it unlikely that the sequence of events suggested in the counterargument would actually occur.

  • pointing out that people who support the counterargument do so out of self-interest rather than because the counterargument is sound.

  • showing that the counterargument offers at best a temporary solution to a problem that requires a permanent solution.

Explanation for Question 33 From the Reading Section on the 2018 April Sat

Question 33 says in the last paragraph of passage, 2 one Douglas rejects a counterargument to one of his claims by blank. 3 So let's go back and reread the entirety of the last paragraph and see 4 what he's doing here. The last paragraph is going to start here is saying 5 it may be objected. However, so you're saying this is might be the objection 6 to my argument. It may be objected. However, 7 at this pressing of the right to suffrage is premature. 8 Let us have slavery abolished. It may be said, 9 let us have labor organized. And then the natural course of events sort of 10 suffers Rob law. I do not agree with this. 11 Okay. So we're learning that he's setting up what he's saying here. 12 He's saying that, um, 13 some might say that, um, 14 abolishing slavery is, 15 you know, just that's where we should start. 16 We shouldn't go a lot further. 17 We should just abolish slavery. And then in the natural course of events, 18 things are gonna unfold that these ex slaves are going to, 19 sorry. My guess one is that these ex slaves are going to now have 20 the, um, you know, 21 slow pathway towards suffrage, 22 which is the right to vote. So eventually they're going to get all this 23 and the natural course of events. He's saying, I don't agree with this. 24 He's saying the constitution on the human mind is such that if it wants 25 disregards, the conviction of forced upon it by revelation of truth, 26 it requires the exercise of a higher power to produce the same conviction aft...

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