The Power of Words
Let me present you with a hypothetical. Senator Robert Kelly holds a campaign rally. During the rally he states that the greatest threat to the United States is mutants. He goes on about how they are ruining America and cheating hard working people out of their jobs. He derides them as untrustworthy and criminal in nature. A week later a man from that rally kills a mutant that he believes took his job. When asked about it, Senator Kelly condemns the man and any form of violence. He then goes on the campaign trail, still making caustic remarks about mutants. He accuses them of being rapists and murders. A month later a man opens fire at a mutant support group. Senator Kelly declares on TV that there is no room for violence. At his next rally he introduces the Mutant Registration Act to protect Americans from criminal mutants. Any outside observer would be pretty skeptical of the senator’s condemnations of violence. There is a pretty clear line from what he is saying to what happens. Sur...