Censorship
Rachel Maddow’s Greatest Hit
“Donald Trump has to be taken out before he ruins our country,” Rachel Maddows tweeted on January 23, 2017. Since then some forensic psychologists have argued this language and dehumanization actually radicalized Rep. Steve Scalise’s shooter, James T. Hodgkinson, 66, who had fallen hook, line and sinker for a red-baiting narrative. In fact, in the Milgram Obedience experiment, good people were persuaded to harm and potentially kill people they actually met simply because a man in a white lab coat, an authority, told them to. For older Americans, the television set is still an authority. The shooter had created a hit list of high ranking Republicans to take out with an assault rifle. Scalise is the No. 3 House Republican leader. […]