Manifestos use radical language to emphasize their points. The Black Panther Party Platform and the SCUM Manifesto both use radical language to capture the reader’s attention and gain popularity through the harsh words. Radical language has way of influencing people during times where society and the government are weak or reaching a weak point. Radical language also entices people who are not in a great state of mind and find comfort in the radical language and what it promises. The Black Panther Party arose during the Civil Rights Era in which African Americans were fighting to have equal rights. The Black Panther Party Platform drew African Americans that felt there would never be any changes to society and how African Americans were treated without doing something radical to ensure that African Americans are heard.  The SCUM Manifesto was written in a satirical way to appeal to women by saying that men have destroyed the world and in order for the world to be saved women need to make the male sex disappear. Because of the radical language and the satire in the SCUM Manifesto, women started appealing to the idea that men ruined the world and that they are to blame for every downfall. In both The Black Panther Party Platform and the SCUM Manifesto the use of radical language is effective.