How much does right-wing rhetoric contribute to right-wing terrorism?

Washington Post ^ | June 9, 2014 | BY PAUL WALDMAN

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Yesterday, a man and a woman shot two police officers in a Las Vegas restaurant after saying, “this is a revolution.” Then they draped their bodies in a Gadsden flag. According to reports now coming in, the couple (who later killed themselves) appear to have been white supremacists and told neighbors they had gone to join the protests in support of anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy. It was one more incident of right-wing terrorism that, while not exactly an epidemic, has become enough of a trend to raise some troubling questions.

What I’m about to say will raise some hackles, but we need to talk about it. It’s long past time for prominent conservatives and Republicans to do some introspection and ask whether they’re contributing to outbreaks of right-wing violence. --snip--

And I promise you, these murders in Nevada will not be the last. It may be going too far to say that conservative politicians and media figures whose rhetoric has fed the deranged fantasies of terrorists and killers have blood on their hands. But they shouldn’t have a clear conscience, either.

[GeronL]

It’s not even close, doesn’t require a study.

[cripplecreek]

It was one more incident of right-wing terrorism that, while not exactly an epidemic, has become enough of a trend to raise some troubling questions.

Dissect that statement.

[Jewbacca]

These people were meth heads and National Socialists.

Not sure how that has anything to do with conservatism.

[darkwing104]

How much does right Left-wing rhetoric contribute to right Left--wing terrorism?

More than you think

[glorgau]

How much does Muslim rhetoric contribute to terrorism?

[Servant of the Cross]

How much does left-wing policy contribute to real Islamic terrorism?

[demshateGod]

What a stupid article. Crazy people, leftists, and sons of Obama kill people. There is no right wing terrorism.

[Iron Munro]

[Genoa]

The "troubling questions" were all prepped and ready to go, first opportunity.

[vette6387]

“I don’t think you can point to a single “right wing” violence episode in the last... well, forever (mcveigh was a ultra-lefty).”

Everyone wants to paint the political “spectrum” as a line, when it’s really a circle with the loony left and right connecting diametrically opposite the “middle” where the people who are completely stupid reside.

[kvanbrunt2]

well lets compare the numbers 2 for the right wingers and about 300M for the left wingers Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot, Lenin, Stalin, etc, etc, etc.

[Iron Munro]

How much does left-wing policy contribute to real Islamic terrorism?

And how much do Islamic terrorists contribute to the Obama government's left-wing policy?

[cripplecreek]

I read some of the McVeigh rantings and he could have given speeches at an ANSWER rally.

[Track9]

Of course Che Guevara T-shirts are not about celebrating a murdering lawless ‘revolutionary’.

[kvanbrunt2]

according the the other post then it’s two more for the left wing Nazi’s.

[Dallas59]

Right wing terror? More left wingers committing terror everyday.

[Objective Scrutator]

If we were really interested in stopping terrorism, we would wiretap Democrats, liberals, socialists, communists, anarchists, greens, and other assorted Leftists. The Hussein Administration only wiretaps people they don’t personally like (AKA conservatives), so it’s no surprised that mass shootings and crime aren’t going to be prevented by the NSA.

[Popman]

——How much does right-wing rhetoric contribute to right-wing terrorism?-——

The answer is “0”.....

Right wing or left wing terrorist are mentally ill....

[lastchance]

If you mean “A-hole” just write “A-hole”.

[cripplecreek]

This kind of left wing screed is intended to inspire violence against the right by convincing left wing nut jobs that they face a threat.