Something practical you can do to fight against the climate that led to the Giffords shooting

[Kenneth Quinnell]

One of the narratives that right-wingers are pushing really hard right now is that Jared Lee Loughner was NOT a product of the climate created by right-wing hate speech and that both sides have an equal number of nutjobs out there saying evil things.  This is demonstrably not true, but we have to be able to push back with overwhelming evidence to make our case.  There are enough examples of people carrying "Kill Bush" signs out there that if we provide a list of 20-30 examples of extreme/violent right-wing rhetoric to prove our point, they will easily be able to counter with a list of similar length.  So what we have to do is differentiate the two sides in two ways:
 
1. The number of incidents -- I have tracked probably at least 1000 incidents of right-wing hate speech/violent speech over the last few years.
2. Who is behind the incidents -- the examples on the left come from random people at obscure rallies and web sites.  The examples on the right come from the leaders of the party and major media and public figures (as well as the obscure people).
 
To be able to make this case more clearly, we have to catalog the info in a useful manner.  I have a website/wiki for that here:
 
http://quinnell.us/faq/pmwiki.php?n=Main.ThePoliticsOfHate

The problem is that I wasn't able to maintain it while I was working on the campaign and it's a bit out of date.  I have, like I said, though, identified maybe a thousand incidents that need to be put into that wiki.  In order to get this out while it is still relevant and fresh, though, I need your help.  Anybody who has a little bit of free time and is willing to help over the next few days, send me a message.  Once this wiki gets to a critical mass of information, I, along with some partners at the national level, are going to push it to the mainstream media and make sure that the truth is available to those who are interested in it.
 
Can you help?
 
Kenneth

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[Michelle and Jon Kenoyer]

This is a great idea, Kenneth. There have been a few diaries since the terrible shooting that attempted to do exactly this (list the sources and incidences of right-wing violence):

 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/10/935033/-One-clear-lesson-from-the-Arizona-tragedy-for-progressives-(Update)

 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/10/934924/-Does-Anyone-Else-See-A-Pattern-

 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/9/934563/-Guns,-God-and-Incitement.

 

Hope this helps--if I get some time to add to the wiki, I will definitely do so. :)

 

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