One last pop on this whole question of incivility of discourse, the much argued over issue of whose speech has been more inflammatory and socially destructive than whose. By now we have pretty well exhausted the charges against vaguely defined entities called "the Left" and "the Right." They did it, the unanimous conclusion seems to be (it is unanimous because nobody admits being an inflammatory Left or Right voice himself) and so the rest of us, having duly called the rabble-rousers to account, can now go home and get on with our normal business.
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