Stochastic Terrorism is a term used by the Left to accuse the Right of fomenting terrorism. Here are a few of the techniques the Left uses and how they deflect when they foment terrorist acts.
The ‘Stochastic’ part of Stochastic Terrorism is a benefit to the experts. Because, as is essential to the idea, violence can be expected “stochastically,” they can rest assured something will occur eventually. The more they assert certain people are Stochastic Terrorists, the more those people are immediately to blame the moment any incident occurs, no matter if the violence was related to them in any way or not....
After the viral footage of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, social media and establishment media immediately excitedly reported new police altercations as being examples of corrupt police, and all police actions possibly racist in nature. Riots became a regular event....
Describing riots as “mostly peaceful” allows for the rhetorical negation of any accusations of Stochastic Terrorism, and allows for the continued excited elevation of every police encounter as being corrupted by racism....
When a draft leak of a Supreme Court opinion striking down Roe v Wade surfaced, people posted the addresses of Supreme Court Justices’ homes. Instead of expressing concerns about rhetoric and posting of addresses being Stochastic Terrorism, the White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki said she was ok with the protests being at the Justice's homes but wanted them to be peaceful. The increased probability someone could try to commit an act of violence towards a Supreme Court Justice was not factored in — the random nature explicit in Stochastic Terrorism was a shield for Psaki because for now violence is just a hypothetical....
In the same time period, “pregnancy centers,” which are “pro-life” alternatives to Planned Parenthood, were being burned down or vandalized. Here again, the possible randomness of which center to burn down and when was contrasted to the universe, and the concept of Stochastic Terrorism disappeared and an accusation that being concerned about the arsons was just people being, I guess, too sensitive.
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