Talk:Stochastic Terrorism

Here is the problem. The term “Stochastic Terrorism” was coined by an earnest anonymous blogger http://stochasticterrorism.blogspot.com/ who wrote an eloquent essay without doing any social science research.. . Alas, journalists failed to fact-check the concept in social science, where the term “Scripted Violence” has been used for decades. Some journalists now claim the term is used in social science. Maybe on the web, but this is an internet meme that lazy journalists and scholars are now being drawn toward. The term “Stochastic Terrorism” has become popular in risk management studies and in the study of terrorism, where the idea is used to describe terrorism where the target and date are “random” and “unpredictable” and used to destabilize a government or society. Some of us are still trying to sort this out on Wikipedia. Sigh. See this specific stable URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scripted_Violence&oldid=868036921 . -Chip Berlet, author of “Heroes Know Which Villains to Kill: How Coded Rhetoric Incites Scripted Violence,” “in Matthew Feldman and Paul Jackson (eds), Doublespeak: Rhetoric of the Far-Right Since 1945, Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag; 2014.Chip.berlet (talk) 19:29, 9 November 2018 (UTC)