Most despicable reaction to the Tucson shootings?

[xenophon41]

@What_the

I clicked on your links and you are on notice that I am aware that it has something to do with “eliminationalism” or something like that but didn’t go any further.

Just in case some other participant or lurker thinks “TLDR” is a proper rebuttal, I offer the following concise description of eliminationism:

It is when one or more popular spokespersons of a specific political faction commonly and consistently use language in their public speech that isolates one ethnic or ideological group as an enemy and attempts to show it as an existential threat that must be eliminated from society.*****

If that’s too long and boring for anyone to respond to, I suggest such a person may not be equipped to discuss these grownup topics

*****For everyone else, please note that neither I nor BrainGlutton (to my knowledge) has ever claimed that eliminationism is dangerous or even very effective in isolation. Most partisan groups have been represented at one time or another by speakers who’ve used eliminationist rhetoric. But it begins to darken the political landscape when the same eliminationist images, concepts and word-for-word phrases are used in concert by many or most of the popular figures representing a specific world view. And that is the ‘eliminationist’ argument about the rhetoric of the right.

[BrainGlutton]

@xenophon41

*****For everyone else, please note that neither I nor BrainGlutton (to my knowledge) has ever claimed that eliminationism is dangerous or even very effective in isolation. Most partisan groups have been represented at one time or another by speakers who’ve used eliminationist rhetoric. But it begins to darken the political landscape when the same eliminationist images, concepts and word-for-word phrases are used in concert by many or most of the popular figures representing a specific world view. And that is the ‘eliminationist’ argument about the rhetoric of the right.

Agreed, with the caveat that eliminationism can be dangerous – rarely to the existential-threat-to-society level, but it can give rise to things like the Klan, the Minutemen (and no, ranking them with the Klan is not a false equivalency), etc.

[xenophon41]

…I assume you’re talking about the nuts on the US-Mexican border (Google: Jim Gilchrist) rather than the colonial militiaists of the Am. Revolution.