Who's to blame for shooting at CO Planned Parenthood
The head of the Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic where a gunman killed three people and injured nine others said in a statement Saturday that the man held anti-abortion views.http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/11/29/lynch-calls-planned-parenthood-shooting-crime-against-women/After months of verbal assault against Planned Parenthood and against women more broadly, Republican Christianists have gotten what they were asking for—bloodshed. On November 27, a mass shooting left three dead and nine wounded at a Planned Parenthood clinic just miles from the headquarters of the Religious Right flagship, Focus on the Family. Was the shooting exactly what conservative Christian presidential candidates and members of congress wanted? Maybe, maybe not. But it is what they asked for. Republican members of the Religious Right incited violence as predictably as if they had issued a call for Christian abortion foes to take up arms. Inciting violence this way is called stochastic terrorism:
“Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. In short, remote-control murder by lone wolf.”....
http://valerietarico.com/2015/11/28/christianist-republicans-systematically-incited-colorado-clinic-assault/
Originally Posted by jimnyc
Pointing out crimes, moral offenses, and various abuses of people or a group is one thing. But directly calling for violence or vigilantly acts is another.
But the poor deluded slob is the only one that will be on trail and rightly so.
Any Pro-Lifers calling for dead abortion docs are wrong.
Any Black lives matters folks calling for dead cops are wrong.
But you can't honestly blame the majority responsible Pro-Lifers or reasonable Black Live Matter supporters for the threatening words of the radicals or the actions of those that commit violent acts in the name of whatever cause.
The fact is some issues are by nature extreme. I think few would argue that infanticide and the line moving backwards from there is clear. and at some point for everyone it's murder. to make a POV clear sometime harsh words are used. It's legit no matter how it makes opponents feel. I think few would debate that on occasion some police have wrongfully killed innocent people. At some point calling that murder is not just extreme rhetoric but it's the name of the charges LEOs have gone to jail for.
To point these offenses out using language less than murder may be polite but it's not doing damage to the truth to use the harshest terms to emphasize the crime. Whether or not those talking points stir something in a fringe to retaliate personally rather than use all the non-violent and legal means available is finally up to that person.
All of the over-hyped blame laying after the fact is often just used as a whip against the other side. It seems not so much because either side really cares that much about the dead. Or take the responsibility for the deaths very seriously since all sides will wake up in the morning and continue to use the the same harsh/clear language against each other and their positions.
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