Could you cite for me what those writers who've studied such propaganda have said about the difference between people responding to violent rhetoric en masse and people responding on an individual basis? I ask because I've read a great deal about this, and I have yet to encounter one who considered individuals significantly less inclined to act on violent rhetoric than crowds.
The violent attacks on abortion clinics and clinic workers have, after all, not been the work of mobs but of individuals. And anyone who has actually read personal accounts of eras and places where murderous rhetoric was mainstreamed -- the US during WWI, Germany in the 30s, the American south during Jim Crow -- will cite not only mob actions but individual cases of harassment, assaults, vandalism, even murders.
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Date: 19/1/11 20:12 (UTC)The violent attacks on abortion clinics and clinic workers have, after all, not been the work of mobs but of individuals. And anyone who has actually read personal accounts of eras and places where murderous rhetoric was mainstreamed -- the US during WWI, Germany in the 30s, the American south during Jim Crow -- will cite not only mob actions but individual cases of harassment, assaults, vandalism, even murders.