...a hate group, if unimpeded, passes through seven successive stages:
Stage 1: Grouping- DC rally, town hall meetings.
Stage 2: Self-definition- Tea partyers (or whatever they call themselves).
Stage 3: Disparaging the target- Obama joker, Obamanation, Obama as a socialist.
Stage 4: Taunting the target- You Lie!, assault rifles at town hall meetings, any weirdo wing-nut on this site.
Stage 5: Attacking without weapons- coming soon.
Stage 6: Attacking with weapons- coming soon.
Stage 7: Destroying the target- God helps us if this happens.
In the first four stages, hate groups vocalize their beliefs and in the last three stages, they act on their beliefs.
The report points to a transition period that exists between verbal violence and acting that violence out, separating hardcore haters from rhetorical haters.
Thus, hate speech is seen as prerequisites of hate crimes and as a condition of their possibility.
The ultimate goal of haters is to destroy the object of their hate. With the power over life and death comes a great sense of self-worth and value, the very qualities haters lack, however, the ultimate destiny of hate is the physical and psychological destruction of both the hater and the hated.
So...What stage do you think these wing-nuts are in now?
I say stage 4, and coming up on stages 5&6 real fast.
Stage 1: Grouping- DC rally, town hall meetings.
Stage 2: Self-definition- Tea partyers (or whatever they call themselves).
Stage 3: Disparaging the target- Obama joker, Obamanation, Obama as a socialist.
Stage 4: Taunting the target- You Lie!, assault rifles at town hall meetings, any weirdo wing-nut on this site.
Stage 5: Attacking without weapons- coming soon.
Stage 6: Attacking with weapons- coming soon.
Stage 7: Destroying the target- God helps us if this happens.
In the first four stages, hate groups vocalize their beliefs and in the last three stages, they act on their beliefs.
The report points to a transition period that exists between verbal violence and acting that violence out, separating hardcore haters from rhetorical haters.
Thus, hate speech is seen as prerequisites of hate crimes and as a condition of their possibility.
The ultimate goal of haters is to destroy the object of their hate. With the power over life and death comes a great sense of self-worth and value, the very qualities haters lack, however, the ultimate destiny of hate is the physical and psychological destruction of both the hater and the hated.
So...What stage do you think these wing-nuts are in now?
I say stage 4, and coming up on stages 5&6 real fast.