right-wingers[']...eliminationist rhetoric results in unhinged paranoids turning to assassination
Examples? I'll grant you McVeigh, with reservations. Beyond that...? Neiwert's theory is persuasively argued but doesn't really account for the data, and he really loses me when he engages in mind-reading ("the rest of them do, in fact, know full well..."). Kaczynski is a primitivist anarchist (and still highly regarded by many in those circles), a ton are simple schizophrenics (e.g. Loughner) who don't seem to notice any rhetoric except the voices inside their heads, and for every James Earl Ray there's a Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Examples? I'll grant you McVeigh, with reservations. Beyond that...? Neiwert's theory is persuasively argued but doesn't really account for the data, and he really loses me when he engages in mind-reading ("the rest of them do, in fact, know full well..."). Kaczynski is a primitivist anarchist (and still highly regarded by many in those circles), a ton are simple schizophrenics (e.g. Loughner) who don't seem to notice any rhetoric except the voices inside their heads, and for every James Earl Ray there's a Lee Harvey Oswald.