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- Pundits are weaponizing disgust to fuel violence, and it’s affecting our humanity - Dehumanizing and vilifying a person or group of people can provoke what scholars and law enforcement officials call stochastic terrorism, in which ideologically driven hate speech increases the likelihood that people will violently and unpredictably attack the targets of vicious claims.-
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-stochastic-terrorism-uses-disgust-to-incite-violence/