The pseudonymous blogger G2geek has been credited for popularizing this term in the context of “lone wolves” after the 2011 Tucson shooting. For 10 points each:
[10m] What adjective describes acts of violence that are individually unpredictable but statistically likely? This type of “terrorism” can be incited by hateful public rhetoric with plausible deniability like dogwhistles.
ANSWER: stochastic [accept stochastic terrorism; accept stochastic violence]
[10e] Inciters of stochastic terrorism often push this kind of oft-derided idea that attributes actions to a small powerful cabal. These ideas include the Great Replacement.
ANSWER: conspiracy theories [or conspiracy theory; or conspiracies; or conspiracy]
[10h] This thinker postulated an early form of stochastic terrorism by describing how Nazi Germany used new and old myths to incite racial violence in his The Myth of the State, which extended his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms.
ANSWER: Ernst Cassirer (“kuh-SEER-er”)
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