Sean Lawson, assistant professor in the department of communication at the University of Utah, argues: "When militarist cyber rhetoric results in use of offensive cyber attack it is likely that those attacks will escalate into physical, kinetic uses of force".
If that were the case, an impasse with a great deal of impassioned rhetoric would result.
When I suggested to the governor that his anyone-who-crosses-the-Potomac-is-tainted rhetoric would result in derision should he ever run for a job in Washington, he assured me, "You won't see me there".
Because, at a time when our country desperately needs a unifier, the president has nominated a man to be the chief law enforcement officer of the country -- the people's lawyer, the lawyer for all the people -- who has a long record of divisive and inflammatory rhetoric, which results in him being viewed as a polarizing figure.
The "anti-gay" and "anti-LGBT" rhetoric has resulted in a major increase in violence and abuse against members of the LGBT community. .
The second repetition -- this time as farce -- occurred last week as, once again, Mr. Clinton went back to his once-trusty playbook and implied that this time, the Tea Party rhetoric might result in political violence.
This may well be a self-reinforcing cycle, as people turned off by constant homophobic rhetoric leave the churches, which results in diluted power for religious conservatives, who then bear down even harder on the anti-gay message.
To them, acceptance of pretax income as a moral base line means that "serious public discussion of economic justice has been largely displaced by specious rhetoric about tax fairness," resulting in a "radical climate" of tax proposals favoring the rich.
But it's not just photo opportunities, billboards and dangerous rhetoric that have resulted from the government's crusade to reduce net migration to an arbitrary target in the tens of thousands.
But as you'll see in this Op-Doc video, some of their efforts and money feed a dangerous ideology that seeks to demonize L.G.B.T. people and intensifies religious rhetoric until it results in violence.
