tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36300915978016318422024-03-05T00:30:15.965-08:00Scripted Violence and TerrorismChipsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576332097091474513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630091597801631842.post-18289152583153602772016-06-28T13:30:00.005-07:002016-07-01T09:10:21.919-07:00Chipsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576332097091474513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630091597801631842.post-79187041070626306332016-06-28T13:30:00.003-07:002016-07-01T09:10:35.616-07:00Heroes Know Which Villains to Kill: How Coded Rhetoric Incites Scripted Violence<div class="MsoNormal">
The publisher ibidem-Verlag has graciously consented to my
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Chipsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576332097091474513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630091597801631842.post-6720102906925816452016-06-28T13:30:00.000-07:002018-01-23T11:09:18.200-08:00Some problems with using the term “Stochastic Terrorism”<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">My publisher ibidem-Verlag has graciously consented to my
placing the complete pre-publication final draft of my chapter <span style="color: #45818e;"> <a href="https://www.academia.edu/26640115/">“Heroes Know Which Villains to Kill: How Coded Rhetoric Incites Scripted Violence</a>,”</span> online: <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/26640115/</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> </span>On 26 January 2011 a clearly well-meaning and literate
blogger invented the term “Stochastic Terrorism” to describe how right-wing
pundits were indirectly inciting followers to acts of violence against
scapegoated targets in the United States. See <a href="http://stochasticterrorism.blogspot.com/">http://stochasticterrorism.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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Unfortunately, the author was also clearly unfamiliar with
social science research since the 1950s. This form of incitement to action through
mass media by “demagogues” can and does generate acts of violence--including,
but not limited to, acts of terrorism. </div>
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This is a well-studied process of “incitement” based on “prejudice”
and “stereotyping” that involves the “vilification” or “demonization” of a
named “Other” who is portrayed as threatening the survival of the “real people”
of the idealized nation.</div>
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A comprehensive study of these processes is found in Gordon W.
Allport’s 500-page 1954 masterwork, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Nature of Prejudice, </i>(Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley). An extensive bibliography is provided in the full article</div>
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Much of the scholarly research and writing in the late 1940s
and 1950s focused on the demonization of Jews in Nazi Germany; but attention
was also paid over time to the targeting and vilification of communists,
anarchists, homosexuals, the infirm (including those with physical or mental
issues); as well as others including critics who dared to speak out against
Hitler’s regime.</div>
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While at Political Research Associates in the 1990s I began
researching these related processes involved in incitement to violence and
publishing articles in scholarly and popular publications. In 2014 a study I
authored was published as <a href="https://www.academia.edu/26640115/">“Heroes Know Which Villains to Kill: How CodedRhetoric Incites Scripted Violence</a>,” in Matthew Feldman and Paul Jackson (eds),
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doublespeak: Rhetoric of the Far-Right
Since 1945</i>, Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag. </div>
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In the chapter I noted that the term
“scripted violence” was the term I found the most useful in previous research
and publications in the social sciences. I still think that is true.</div>
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The publisher ibidem-Verlag has graciously consented to my
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Additional resources can be found at my websites:<br />
The Tools of Fear: <a href="http://www.tools-of-fear.net/">http://www.tools-of-fear.net/</a>
and<br />
Research for Progress: <a href="http://www.researchforprogress.us/topic/">http://www.researchforprogress.us/topic/</a></div>
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