From An Angry Reader:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Subject: Inciting ignorant\nviolence<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIgnorance is bliss\u201d until\nyour\/his followers are inspired to act violently due to to your\/ his\nmisinformation\/lies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hiding your vitriol hate\nbehind well written words does not excuse from inciting\/ propagating hate and\ndiscord<\/p>\n\n\n\n
John Lowery<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Dear Angry Reader John Lowery,<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For such a short angry reader\nletter, you have managed to include many of the AR characteristics: no detail\nor specific evidence to support your wild charges, ad hominem arguments, and\nthe usual invective and smears (\u201clies,\u201d \u201cvitriol,\u201d \u201chate,\u201d etc.) and untruths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Lowery, true, we are\nseeing a great deal of street violence, but it is largely committed by Antifa\nand leftist activists who demonstrate at the homes of their political opponents\nand seek to scare them, or chase people out of restaurants and stores. Most of\nthe vitriol derives likewise from the elite Left in Hollywood and the media who\ncompete to see whether their elected president should be decapitated, blown up,\nshot, stabbed, dismembered, or torched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you can cite a single\ninstance when I have advocated any sort of violence, please send an example. I\nhave never, in the fashion of Joe Biden, threatened to beat anyone up, or as\nhas Cory Booker, warned of impending physical assault once my testosterone\nlevels rose, or joked about seeing the president die in an elevator as did\nKamala Harris. Nor have I urged followers, as did Maxine Waters, to stalk and\nharass opponents, or, as Barack Obama one urged, to \u201cget in their faces\u201d or to\n\u201ctake a gun to a knife fight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a general rule, the Left\nboth condemns in the abstract violence and vitriol and in the concrete\nadvocates or ignores it. I am not sure whether these paradoxes are due to some\npsychological effort to assuage their guilt, or simply political masking of\ntheir approval of violence, or illustrative of their own delusional belief that\ntheir supposedly morally superior ends justify any means necessary to achieve\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I appreciate the compliment\nof \u201cwell written words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Victor Hanson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From An Angry Reader: Subject: Inciting ignorant violence \u201cIgnorance is bliss\u201d until your\/his followers are inspired to act violently due to to your\/ his misinformation\/lies Hiding your vitriol hate behind well written words does not excuse from inciting\/ propagating hate and discord John Lowery \u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013 Dear Angry Reader John Lowery, For such a short angry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-37A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11757,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-04-03-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":12002,"position":0},"title":"Angry Reader 04-03-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Well, a quick scan of your website revealed you actually have a whole section dedicated to \u201cAngry Reader\u201d mail. One would think, a man of your so-called intellect, would perhaps have a small moment of introspection and realize the true damage Donald Trump and the current\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12536,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-08-01-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":12002,"position":1},"title":"Angry Reader 08-01-2020","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I was really impressed by the article you wrote that was published in the east bay times today. Mostly impressed by the enourmase size of the piece of shit that you are. Inciting violence from the \"silent majority\" is one of the most irresponsible things one can possibly publish. FUCK\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":12002,"position":2},"title":"Angry Reader #4","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Angry Reader #4 wrote: You know, I remember, before Pajamas media, when I respected some of the writers that are now here (such as VDH) \u2014 but they\u2019ve all turned into crazy cranks. This little virtual world they\u2019ve built themselves is bad for their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11550,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-12-03-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":12002,"position":3},"title":"Angry Reader 12-03-2018","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: This was the worst piece of historical analysis I\u2019ve ever read in any halfway respectable publication. Please ask your alma mater for a refund on all degrees earned. There isnt (sic) enough time in the day to go through all the stupidity you posted, but I\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11643,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-02-04-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":12002,"position":4},"title":"Angry Reader 02-04-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Are your fake-right fellows at NRO going to issue a grovelling apology to the CHILDREN they attacked at Covington Catholic High School? They were so eager to attack white children that they didn't even bother watching the video before condemning them. This is why we hate\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10974,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/02-14-2018-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":12002,"position":5},"title":"02\/14\/2018 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader From SM: Your article sucks. What if CNN didn\u2019t hate FDR? You can\u2019t debate a hypothetical situation. Trump is probably going to prison. 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