09-02-2017, 05:31 AM
Kinser--
Words can indicate violent or murderous intention depending upon the circumstances. "This is a stick-up" is itself a clear act of violence in some scenarios. That sentence might be exculpable in a screenplay or a book, but not in a bank, store, restaurant, gas station, etc.
Julius Streicher was found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged for such, for publishing a relentless stream of anti-Jewish propaganda in a political order in which the Jews had no chance to rebut what he said of them. His libels made the murder of Jews far easier because in a totalitarian order, speech and even suggestion are practically command.
If you wish to disparage the removal of Confederate monuments from public places to what ISIS or the Taliban does -- ask me what those people would do to monuments of Martin Luther King.
Words can indicate violent or murderous intention depending upon the circumstances. "This is a stick-up" is itself a clear act of violence in some scenarios. That sentence might be exculpable in a screenplay or a book, but not in a bank, store, restaurant, gas station, etc.
Julius Streicher was found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged for such, for publishing a relentless stream of anti-Jewish propaganda in a political order in which the Jews had no chance to rebut what he said of them. His libels made the murder of Jews far easier because in a totalitarian order, speech and even suggestion are practically command.
If you wish to disparage the removal of Confederate monuments from public places to what ISIS or the Taliban does -- ask me what those people would do to monuments of Martin Luther King.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.