History already graded the homework. The after column fills itself once the naming rules are applied.
The plate treats subsequent events as the grade.
SteelMan: Later attacks can test an earlier vocabulary choice.
Cut: The plate does not list the events or the rule.
Say ‘ISIL’ not ‘Islamic State.’ Deny the name. Concerns were noted, space was contested, dynamics emerged, capacity challenges arose. Avoid penetrating communities. A process, not an agent.
The plate lists the passive constructions and the banned name.
SteelMan: Passive voice removes the actor.
Cut: The plate does not show the guidance that mandated the constructions.
The refugee ceiling moved from 70,000 to 110,000. The states had a door. The court removed the hinge.
The plate cites the ceiling change and the judicial intervention.
SteelMan: Courts can constrain state-level resistance to federal resettlement.
Cut: The plate does not name the case or the holding.
Motivation is clear for white-supremacist cases and treated as domestic terrorism. Islam, jihad, or caliphate are the exception. San Bernardino, Fort Hood, Boston.
The plate contrasts the two naming practices.
SteelMan: Inconsistent naming is a fair observation if the cases are comparable.
Cut: The plate does not show the official statements side by side.
Epistemic jargon narrativizes religious warfare into uncomfortable realities that are not directly acknowledged.
The plate treats jargon as a screen.
SteelMan: Technical language can avoid plain description.
Cut: The plate does not quote the jargon or the plain alternative.
OCR returned no usable text.
Unreadable plate.
SteelMan: No claim can be grounded.
Cut: Do not invent.
Refugee admissions and partnership outreach under the line ‘we are not at war with Islam.’
The plate pairs the admissions program with the disclaimer.
SteelMan: A disclaimer can accompany a policy that still admits from conflict zones.
Cut: The plate does not show the admissions numbers or the disclaimer’s legal effect.
Name refused despite the facts. No definitive judgment on the precise motivations of the killer. Evidence recovery at Pulse nightclub. Praise to Allah.
The plate contrasts the recovered evidence with the withheld name.
SteelMan: Investigators can withhold a motive conclusion while evidence points one way.
Cut: The plate does not open the investigation file.
Counter-terrorism vocabulary decommissioned religious-literacy inputs. Do not validate propaganda. Do not alienate. Religious warriors become thugs and thieves. They did not defeat the ideology. They declared it off the form.
The plate shows the decommissioned inputs.
SteelMan: Removing a variable from the form removes it from the analysis.
Cut: The plate does not show the form or the analysis.
Radical Islam is sanitized to violent extremism. The deed remained. The noun was retired. Do not use.
The plate says the noun was retired and the deed was not.
SteelMan: Renaming can preserve the act while changing the category.
Cut: The plate does not show the style guide.
Nine private doors, one public checkbook. Voluntary agencies—Church World Service, and others—were called voluntary. The funding was not.
The plate lists the agencies and the funding source.
SteelMan: Refugee resettlement in the US is publicly funded through private agencies.
Cut: The plate does not show the contracts or the amounts.