The way that the law and science discourse communities shaped the audience’s ways of thinking is that false stereotypes, prejudices, and blatant racism were extremely prevalent in the film. During this time, every institution had racism deeply embedded in them. It would be very difficult to find a non-racist policy or anything in these law and science communities.
- Griffith is depicting the South as dangerous and not a safe place for a white family. There’s a lot of fear and poverty also depicted.
- Griffith wants the audience to see that Silas and Lydia compared to biracial Americans are not equal.
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