Chrkeller said:
Hiku said:
Dangerous harmful rhetoric also exists. I don't think every single person that stormed the capitol on Jan 6 was a 'bad person' or had bad intentions.
If someone convinces you that an election was stolen from them, that can drive people into desperation and commiting irrational acts. If someone is intentionally lying to people in order to convince them of this, then they have a big responsibility for what happens.
The person that went into a pizza place with a shotgun because he heard from Alex Jones that Hillary Clinton runs child pedophile sex traffic ring in its basement, yeah he probably had some screws loose already, but sould we just ignore the scumbags that prey on these gullible individuals for their own personal gain? The blog of the guy that attacked Pelosi is clearly influencesd by many of these far-right ideologies that are no longer just fringe, but are echoed by their mainstream media and even some of their elected officials.
No one is giving him a pass for what he did. They're just also trying to hold the ones that influenced him responsible.
Because there will just be more and more avoidable incidents as long as that continues. |
Perhaps that is my disconnect. I mean who is dumb enough to believe a child sex ring exists in a pizza joint? Or Sandy Hook was staged? Or the election was stolen? Vaccines are tracking devices? I just don't get how people fall for such stupidity. Maybe people simply aren't as smart as I think they are. |
Yeah, the bolded part is one scary/depressing realization I came to a few years ago. I used to think only a minority of people were unable to use critical thinking, fact check for themselves, etc. But now I believe it is much closer to the average person.
