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Does shock jock hate speech lead to violence?
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Mon Sep 1, 2008 8:23 PM EDT
Article Source: Newsday.comadvertisement
On July 27 a man walked into the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville and opened fire, killing two people and seriously wounding seven others.
As someone who has chosen Unitarian Universalism as her faith, I was shaken by the news. Unitarian Universalism congregations, like ours on Long Island, define themselves as a "liberal religious community" - not liberal in the political sense, but because we believe in open-minded discourse and welcome people of all persuasions.
How could such a community become the target of hate?
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{"commentId":2686109,"authorDomain":"PrimarySources"}
Someone who goes as far as shooting up a church is obviously mentally unbalanced. But where might Adkisson have come up with such ideas?
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#1 - Mon Sep 1, 2008 8:24 PM EDT{"commentId":2686968,"authorDomain":"tacitus13"}
Does this mean you should censor free speech in order to prevent crazy people from getting the wrong idea? Should Jodie Foster be banned from working because Hinckley Jr was obsessed with her? Where do you draw the limits on censorship?
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{"commentId":2703724,"authorDomain":"PrimarySources"}
As the person who seeded the article -- and thus is presenting it for discussion -- I'd be more interested in your thoughts on those questions, Tacitus.
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