The Tragedy in Tucson: What Do You Think?
Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 10, 2011
The unfolding news and debates about causes and consequences of yesterday’s tragic violence are raising many of the issues and themes common to this blog. We hoped our readers would weigh in and share their thoughts and reactions to the events themselves and media discourse that has followed: Bad Apple? Disposition? Context? Situation? Spiraling conflict? Naive cynicism?
Below you’ll find some excerpts from today’s Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh programs. What do you think? Please comment.
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- “Motivated Skepticism,”
- “Interview with Professor Eric Knowles,”
- “Naive Cynicism,”
- “Deindividuation and Seung Hui Cho,”
- “The Situation of Talk Radio,”
- “Internet Disinhibition,”
- “Reporting Social Facts vs. Pining for Jim Crow: No Comparison Between Reid and Lott,”
- “Holier Than Thou,”
- “The Situation of Polarization,”
- “The Situation of Political and Religious Beliefs?,”
- “Jim Sidanius ‘Terror, Intergroup Violence, and the Law’,”
- “Biased? I know you are but what am I?,”
- “The Situation of Biased Perceptions,” and
- “I’m Objective, You’re Biased.”
Anonymous said
The clip of Limbaugh is fascinating and, yes, directly relevant to the themes investigated on the Situationist.
Also check out this clip from Limbaugh’s show today, in which he explains why Jared Loughner is smiling in the mug picture which was published all around the country this morning:
“What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country. He’s sitting there in jail. He knows what’s going on, he knows that…the Democrat party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame. He knows if he plays his cards right, he’s just a victim. He’s the latest in a never-ending parade of victims brought about by the unfairness of America…this guy clearly understands he’s getting all the attention and he understands he’s got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he’s not convicted of murder – but something lesser.”