As outlined in this Rolling Stone piece. Definition: " Stochastic terrorism...means using language and other forms of communication 'to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.'"
and from the same article:
"1. A public figure with access to the airwaves or pulpit demonizes a person or group of persons.
2. With repetition, the targeted person or group is gradually dehumanized, depicted as loathsome and dangerous—arousing a combustible combination of fear and moral disgust.
3. Violent images and metaphors, jokes about violence, analogies to past 'purges' against reviled groups, use of righteous religious language—all of these typically stop just short of an explicit call to arms.
4. When violence erupts, the public figures who have incited the violence condemn it—claiming no one could possibly have foreseen the 'tragedy.'"
This is a new term for me, but I really love it. It is more precise than "Hate Speech. “ And it both describes the problem while simultaneously dismantling the excuses for the rhetoric used by Trump and his lackeys, the anti-abortion movement, and most of Fox News’ prime time lineup. And not coincidentally, also applies to ISIL’s efforts which have been so effective in Europe and to a lesser extent here. (Of course, ISIL skips step 4 and the last clause of step 3, opting for explicit terrorism)
Since Stochastic Terrorism draws such such a clear line between ISIL, Trump, and Right Wing eliminationist rhetoric I propose other diarists enter the term into their lexicon. It has such a clarity in argument.
Right now, the dynamic is that someone says something outrageous, the left spends paragraphs upon paragraphs excoriating them and explaining why the statement is problematic; the right spends paragraphs and paragraphs obfuscating and confusing the issue, and the MSM grins wanly and says there is a controversy then cuts to commercial.
It would seem to me that one would really only need to say “stochastic terrorism” and “Gabby Giffords” in the same sentence to get the point across.