stochastic terrorism, the repeated use of hate speech or other vilifying, dehumanizing rhetoric by a political leader or other public figure that inspires one or more of the figure’s supporters to commit hate crimes or other acts of violence against a targeted person, group, or community. In legal terms, stochastic terrorism generally does not constitute incitement or solicitation to violence, which is a serious crime in many countries, because the speech involved lacks sufficient specificity. Incitement entails explicitly directing or encouraging an act of violence against a specific target at a particular time or place, thus immediately putting the target at an identifiable risk. In contrast, stochastic terrorists do not supply their followers with any detailed plan of attack, which means that the particular time and place of the eventual violence are unpredictable.
Why this should not be a crime. During Slavery in the South they used the N word repeatedly and other vilifying and dehumanizing terms that inspires others to commit hate crimes. Now hate crimes were crimes, even during slavery, but not the vilifying dehumanizing speech. Why?
Well let's consider another example, during the Nazi reign of terror in Germany they did the same thing to the Jews. In some Islamic countries they do the same thing towards Christians. During WW2 we did the same thing towards Japanese and Germans, the people we were fighting. In fact they did this against Trump during this recent election calling him a Nazi and likening him to Hitler prior to two assassination attempts. The problem with making this a crime is that it is always those in power, those who enforce the law, who do this.
Second, who gets to draw the line? There is speech given by Schumer and other political leaders that clearly crosses the line in my opinion. Meanwhile in the Jan 6 trial they tried to claim that Trump saying "to peacefully protest" was code. In the last few months we have seen Joe Biden say to put Donald Trump in the bullseye days before he was shot. I think that crossed the line, he wasn't charged. But then they wanted to charge people campaigning for office for using words like "fight". I suspect that if they actually made this a crime it would be totally abused by those in power, accusing others of the very things they are doing while excusing themselves.
Then look at the definition, they have the criteria of it being used by a political leader or other public figure. That would have a chilling effect on public discourse. If the government could shut down every public figure that says something they don't agree with, claiming stochaistic terrorism then that would be a powerful weapon for censorship.
Also what does that mean, public figure? Does that mean that anyone can say anything they want on Facebook, but the minute they are running for office they will dig up stupid things they said in college and throw them in jail? Does this mean only the elites get to decide who runs for office?