When is political speech incitement?

When is political speech incitement?


You may notice a particular strain of media discourse after certain public acts of violence.

When an insane criminal broke into former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) home and assaulted her husband, Scientific American ran an article somehow tying the attack to an online conversation in which conservatives Tucker Carlson and Christopher Rufo objected to drag-queen story hours for little children.

When a masked vandal shot a steel ball through the window of a bar hosting drag-queen story hour a few years back, the New York Times editorial board tied the attack to a Marco Rubio ad that stated, “The radical Left will destroy America if we don’t stop them. They indoctrinate children and try to turn boys into girls.” 

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This was “stochastic terrorism,” the New

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