The rhetorical tool TRUMP uses to quietly incite Violence against minorities, democrats and woman.

https://thinkprogress.org/the-rhetorical-tool-that-allows-trump-to-incite-violence-without-inciting-violence-7fbf7b96d448#.iukfm3jzq

Throughout his campaign, Trump has exemplified a rhetorical strategy that mirrors the way extremists incite violence among their followers.

“Throughout his campaign, Trump has exemplified a rhetorical strategy that mirrors the way extremists incite violence among their followers.”

In a piece published in Rolling Stone, law professor David Cohen argues that Trump is engaging in what’s known as “stochastic terrorism” — an academic term that refers to the act of using suggestive language to inspire radicals to carry out violent acts. In this scenario, a lone wolf terrorist wouldn’t be explicitly instructed to commit their crimes, but they would be encouraged by rhetoric that appears to normalize that type of activity.

“Though most of the people hearing that call may claim he was joking, given what we know about people taking up arms in this country, there will undoubtedly be some people who think he was serious and consider the possibility,” Cohen writes. “Predicting any one particular individual following his call to use violence against Clinton or her judges is statistically impossible. But we can predict that there could be a presently unknown lone wolf who hears his call and takes action in the future.”

Trump’s Second Amendment comment fits into his larger pattern of implicit communication — and a subsequent response from his supporters — thattracks with the definition of stochastic terrorism.

This isn’t just a hypothetical academic concept. Cohen points out that, aside from Trump, there’s a very clear example of stochastic terrorism playing out in our society: the extreme rhetoric in the anti-abortion community.

Right-wing activists who want to stop abortion at all costs don’t exactly instruct people to go out and murder abortion doctors or bomb abortion clinics. In fact, the major leaders of the anti-choice movement frequently insist they don’t support violence in any form and typically attempt to distance themselves from the most radical actors in the movement.

Still, the inflammatory language used by militant anti-choice groups has achilling effect. Suggesting that abortion doctors are criminals, monsters, baby killers, and deserving of harsh punishment helps dehumanize providers — ultimately making them easier targets for the death threats, arson, bombings, and shootings that have plagued abortion clinics for decades

Crosses placed by anti-abortion protesters stand in the lawn outside the South Wind Women’s Center in Wichita, Kansas. CREDIT: AP PHOTO