I spent a lot of Monday reporting Twitter accounts for celebrating Josh's death, which is against one of the few black-letter rules Xitter has left ("glorification of violence"). It wasn't quite as cathartic for the pain of losing him as I'd hoped, but today I got the first account suspension notification, and it's helping remind me that there is still some semblance of a society that we live in.
I find this behavior shocking, and yet when I think more deeply about it, I begin to question whether I should be surprised by it anymore. Folks like Hanania (and/or their ruder comrades) have been calling for the murder of their opponents for a few years by now. Back when Racist Steve in the SSC comments said shooting a fleeing black kid you think stole a car was ok or even good, it was such a bizarre thought that it stopped me cold, but it wouldn't today. I guess what's surprising now is the lack of subtlety. That's what got me about Dobbs, too, after all. I keep expecting reactionaries to vaguely gesture towards following some sort of general norm, and instead they seem to flee as fast as they can in the opposite direction.
As to your point about eg Limbaugh, I'll point out that Limbaugh died a natural death. Same with Buchanan and most similar figures. About the closest you could come would be Herman Cain (COVID), and maybe that guy in Portland (I genuinely do not remember that story clearly), but even then I don't think it's quite the same as a random murder. I dunno. This, the complexity and my resulting lack of confidence, is why I mostly try to talk to people who are close to me in the social fabric, and stick to indirect impacts further out.
I spent a lot of Monday reporting Twitter accounts for celebrating Josh's death, which is against one of the few black-letter rules Xitter has left ("glorification of violence"). It wasn't quite as cathartic for the pain of losing him as I'd hoped, but today I got the first account suspension notification, and it's helping remind me that there is still some semblance of a society that we live in.
I knew Scott Adams was a douchebag, but this is unfunny-Dilbert-level douchebaggery.
I find this behavior shocking, and yet when I think more deeply about it, I begin to question whether I should be surprised by it anymore. Folks like Hanania (and/or their ruder comrades) have been calling for the murder of their opponents for a few years by now. Back when Racist Steve in the SSC comments said shooting a fleeing black kid you think stole a car was ok or even good, it was such a bizarre thought that it stopped me cold, but it wouldn't today. I guess what's surprising now is the lack of subtlety. That's what got me about Dobbs, too, after all. I keep expecting reactionaries to vaguely gesture towards following some sort of general norm, and instead they seem to flee as fast as they can in the opposite direction.
As to your point about eg Limbaugh, I'll point out that Limbaugh died a natural death. Same with Buchanan and most similar figures. About the closest you could come would be Herman Cain (COVID), and maybe that guy in Portland (I genuinely do not remember that story clearly), but even then I don't think it's quite the same as a random murder. I dunno. This, the complexity and my resulting lack of confidence, is why I mostly try to talk to people who are close to me in the social fabric, and stick to indirect impacts further out.