Stochastic violence
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About
Inductive terrorism, aka stochastic terrorism, is a phenomenon in which false and inflammatory propaganda is spread about a target person or group in such a way that it induces some tiny percentage of gullible people (which is a large demographic, so a tiny percentage is all it takes) to act violently in retribution against the target.
This propaganda is usually seeded by powerful interests – either in overt advertising campaigns or in the interpretive framing chosen in deliberately biased media presentations – but may often appear to be grassroots-driven, as individuals become ensnared by the emotional hooks planted in the propaganda and take up the cause as their own.
It is a form of demonization.
Links
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- 2019-08-08 (dictionary.com) What Is "Stochastic Terrorism," And Why Is It Trending?
Reference
- Wikipedia as of 2020-09-05, redirects to a section in the Lone wolf (terrorism) article
RationalWikino mentions as of 2020-09-05
News
- 2011/07/23 14:52 UTC [L..T] Norway, Islam and the threat of the West «Interestingly, this criminal is described by one unnamed Norwegian official as a "madman". He may well be, but this is one way that the motivations for heinous crimes can be airbrushed out of the story before they have the chance to take hold in the popular imagination.»