Reply #189: Me too.

[Withywindle]

Geez, I remember laughing my ass off at the PMRC back in the 80s, and that case where some kid who happened to be a metal fan killed himself so his parents tried to sue Ozzy Osbourne, and all cases of that ilk. Pathetic. Trying to blame some random stranger's "speech" for a tragedy they had nothing to do with.

I totally think right-wing radio is hate speech, and sometimes I wish I lived in a European country where that kind of incitement wasn't allowed, and I'd love to see them all drowning in their own feces in hell (in my own sick fantasies, which I totally don't act on).

But I have to acknowledge there are millions of people who listen to that shit and have never killed anyone and never would.

Speech does not CAUSE violence.

Sociopaths cause violence. And they will reach for any excuse to justify themselves: The Devil/Judas Priest/Grand Theft Auto/Pornography/Sean Hannity Made Me Do It.

Bullshit. If you're the criminal, YOU made you do it, no one else. But people who have an agenda against whatever the scapegoat was will latch on to that sociopath's rationalization as if it means something.

I don't think we should even respect that tactic. Identify it for what it is: a dodge of responsibility.