Your point? This study has nothing to do with the shooting in Tuscon or the point I and others have been trying to make - which is, for what seems like the 90th time, casting blame on the 'rhetoric' so quickly after the shooting was poor journalism and, in my opinion, an attempt by the media and the left to cast blame on the right and to polarize opinions against Palin and the Tea Party - which, is kind of funny since Palin and the Tea Party seem to be doing a pretty good job of that all on their own, without any help form the media..
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > What one study says about violence as a result of political rhetoric. > > Basically there is a small subset of Democrats and republicans who are > Trait Aggressive and are likely to be more influenced to act out their > aggression due to violent speech. > Republicans are NOT more prone to this than Democrats. > And the majority of the public, the vast majority, are extremely > resistant to any influence by political speech to commit violence. > > "People who are classified as "trait aggressive"èhose more likely to > engage in aggressive social interaction, no matter the > circumstancesåªO respond to violent metaphor in political > advertisements. What's completely safe for most of us can make a small > minority feel more like acting out." > > "The results from this study provide some evidence rebutting partisan > interpretations of political violence support, at least in the present > form. Trait-aggressive Democrats and Republicans both expressed > greater support for political violence following exposure to violent > metaphors in political texts, though Democrats seem to show somewhat > greater reactivity. Apparently, though Democrats and Republicans > differ in many ways, support for political violence is not one of > them." > > Of course the question must be raised - would trait aggressive people > respond any differently to political speech as compared to say a > violent movie? > > http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/13/what-one-study-says.ht > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333530 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
