If you tell people that your enemy is mutilating kids, it hardly matters if that's true or not.
A certain percentage of people are gonna believe you, and because they believe you -- a certain percentage of *them* are going to feel comfortable using any imaginable level of violence to stop what they think of as a credible threat.
When we talk about "stochastic terrorism" as one of the products of hate speech, this is what we mean.
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