The "Stochastic Terrorism" Lie | The Latest Attack on Free Speech?

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Published on Dec 6, 2022 by Christopher F. Rufo​

The “Stochastic Terror” Lie

"Stochastic Terrorism" Is About Suppressing Free Speech

The Left’s latest gambit for censorship is built on preposterous grounds.

www.city-journal.org

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The scheme works like this: left-wing media, activists, and officials designate a subject of discourse, such as Drag Queen Story Hour, off-limits; they treat any reporting on that subject as an expression of “hate speech”; and finally, if an incident of violence emerges that is related, even tangentially, to that subject, they assign guilt to their political opponents and call for the suppression of speech. The statistical concept of “stochasticity,” which means “randomly determined,” functions as a catch-all: the activists don’t have to prove causality—they simply assert it with a sophisticated turn of phrase and a vague appeal to probability.​

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Though framed in scientific terms, this gambit is a crude political weapon. In practice, left-wing media, activists, and officials apply the “stochastic terrorism” designation only in one direction: rightward. ​

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