Re: [OT] Excellent editorial about shooting of Israeli diplomats in DC

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/arsen-ostrovsky-this-is-what-globalize-the-initfada-looks-like

Yeah, that was horrifying. Pritzker was invited. I heard that he'd sent
a representative.

This article doesn't say but other reporting said the perpetrator was
from Chicago.

On this morning's C-SPAN Washington Journal, they went through news
reports of organizations releasing reports of "The Rise of
Anti-Semitism" in the world and in the United States. I didn't bother to
track down the analysis myself but the reporting conflated hate speech
and violence.

I'm going to repeat myself. It's so convenient to note a trend of rising
hatred expressed as speech and expressed violently, linking the trends
to each other.

There is a relationship. It's indirect. But unless the speaker and the
perpetrator of the violent act are conspirators to perpetrate the
violent crime, the speaker's obnoxious comments are not directly
responsible for the violence.

Everyone is an adult responsible for his own behavior. The speaker is
responsible for his speech. The perpetrator is responsible for his
crime, even if he had listened to the speech or read hateful statements
in an article or a book.