| Mr Khan said: Killed by a communist so crazy even the Soviet Union didn't want anything to do with him, i agree. In neither case is the violence directly attributable to hate-speech (it is to a point, but insanity is by nature unforeseeable in how it might be prompted to action), but in both cases they came in a time when such speech arrives to dominate political discourse. A reason to reflect, if poorly ascribed, is still a good thing. Fox News correspondents have apparently been told to tone it down, so there's a start |
Introspection seems only to be expected of one side, though. You have incidents like the Cape Cod arsonist and his/her calling card of "fuck the rich", and the bungled shooting of the Florida school board by Clay Duke. Yet I don't hear anyone saying that class warfare (my, what a violent sounding term!) talk on the part of the left needs to be toned down. I guess heated rhetoric is only scary and dangerous when it comes from the right.
Whatever Fox News' problems, I've never seen them conduct such an utterly uncritical interview with someone sporting a clear boner for violent revolution as MSNBC did with Ted Rall. Just one week after the elections, no less.
