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Opinion | What the right and left both get wrong about comparing speech with violence

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Frida Ghitis : The theory of “stochastic terrorism’ holds that people who engage in overheated or irresponsible rhetoric are, in effect, inciting violence.

She says it’s wildly hypocritical for the right to suddenly embrace this equation of overheated speech with violence the moment it becomes convenient for it, Ghitis says.

Frida Ghitis: Debate about whether a given piece of rhetoric is overheated boils down to whether the underlying facts merit the heat.

She says the problem with focusing too much on the hypocrisy of your ideological enemies is that it can be an excuse to never have to clarify your own principles.

Ghitis says Bernie Sanders isn't responsible for people who agree with him on the first part but disagree on the second part.