Until his network is presented with real evidence that torture is being used or being considered, he added, "It's like the conversation you or I would have at dinner: 'I wonder if we should torture?' " Of course, even that level of discourse is considerably disturbing to groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, which criticize the use of torture by regimes around the world.
Projects like Voices, whose "Words and Violence" series highlights the disturbing trajectory of our social discourse, says yes. Words matter.
Assault rifles haven't replaced placards yet outside presidential townhalls on healthcare reform, but their emergence serves as another disturbing symbol of where political discourse is heading.
Reacting to the upheaval at Donald Trump's canceled Chicago rally, Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday night that this is a "very disturbing moment in our political discourse" and pointed to "real significant anger and frustration at the direction of the country".
"We are entering a kind of disturbing moment in our political discourse in this country that is reaching a boiling point that I believe has very significant repercussions, not just for this election, but for the future of this country," he told Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly Friday night.
The prime minister was subjected to a range of political discourse that was deeply disturbing in its nature," he said.
Disturbed people and disturbing images.
More than three years after we entered the worst economic slump since the 1930s, a strange and disturbing thing has happened to our political discourse: Washington has lost interest in the unemployed.
Watching the debate brought home not so much the wit and poise of JFK or the nascent malevolence of Richard Nixon as something far more surprising and disturbing--the almost unbelievable debasement of American political discourse in the intervening 30 years.
They riff on well-trodden feminist discourse around rejecting unwanted advances, or analysis of the disturbing "pick-up artist" trend.
