Blogger Clark Bianco, who formerly wrote for the popular free speech blog Popehat.com and recently launched status451.com, notes that these criteria are so vague that “we start this game with a 5 point checklist, and four of the boxes are pre-checked for every single libertarian/right meme.” Basically, the only one of these five points that doesn’t already fit into erroneous preexisting liberal conceptions about angry and violent right wingers is the discernment involved in identifying “a speech act that is clearly understood as a call to violence.”

But that might be the most chilling part of all. Recent history shows us that what the left clearly understands as a call to violence is far from literal and often borders on willful, delusional misinterpretation. By the same token, when the left is explicitly violent, their rhetoric gets rationalized away.