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I don't think it's just being 2 degrees of separation away from a murder victim. Some of the online commentators I watch, including Shoe, feel like their life is genuinely at risk now, because it's seemingly within the Overton window to both say "fascists should be shot", and "this person I don't like is a fascist, trust me". She lists a huge number of things that people have accused her of being fascist for.
But I do think you're right that she's overreacting; vivid news like this makes extremely rare events seem much more likely. Rationally, I don't think we're anywhere close to normalizing political murder, even if we're taking some steps in that direction.
But this has been the case for at least ten years, and the so-called "fascists" remained remarkably unshot until about a week ago. There is a sense in which politics has become higher stakes now, but that is a function of the underlying reality, not a function of the words we use to describe that reality. I think it's far more likely that Tyler Robinson was pushed over the edge by the (AFAICT accurate) report that the DOJ was considering a ban on transgenders owning firearms than he was by people on the internet calling Republicans "fascists" or "Nazis" instead of less offensive terms like "stupid" or "insensitive".
Keep in mind that Charlie Kirk might be the most assassinatable conservative in modern history. His whole schtick was going into hostile territory at universities across the country and holding open-air events in locations with great sniper cover and sightlines.
Ehhhhhhhh...
"Opposing Obamacare is Killing People!" -> Congresional Baseball shooting where, but for the grace of God and Hodgkinson's bad aim, a nontrivial part of the GOP congressional caucus could have been killed.
"Opposing BLM/supporting Trump is fascist!" -> Killing of Aaron Danielson, the kidnapping and torture of a white mentally-disabled person (incidentally, I just found out when digging this back up that the animals who did this all got less than 10 years in prison and one only got 4 years' probation and 200 hours of community service, and I'm horrified all over again), and having a philosophy professor bash your head with a bike lock.
"Right-wingers should be killed!" -> Killing of Cayler Ellison
And that's just the obvious cases that actually made the media - there's plenty more attempts and foiled plots, including the two attempt on Trump during the 2020 campaign, the wacko who flew out from California to try and kill Justice Kavanaugh, the "Ruth Sent Us" firebombings, BLM riots, etc.
It's not like it's all been sunshine and roses out there.
You could add the 'ICE is disappearing people like gestapa!' -> 4th of July attack on ICE in Texas.
Gestapo.
There's a grammar nazi joke to be made here, but I fear it wouldn't translate.
Nazi.
It's a noun. It has to be capitalized.
If you're going to be pedantic, it's a proper noun, which is why it has to be capitalized.
He who lives by the grammar Nazi, dies by the grammar Nazi.
That's your english convention. It obviously does not apply to German nouns, all of which by the immutable laws of the universe require capitalization without exception.
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