Thread by @jenmercieca

I wish this article on violent political rhetoric had included experts on violent political rhetoric (unlocked): nytimes.com/2022/08/13/nyr…

Scholars of rhetoric & violence:
@HunttheDevil (Bob Ivie especially on war rhetoric)
@rhosa (Rosa Eberly especially on gun violence)
@ErsulaOre (Ersula Ore especially on racial violence & lynching)

More her in the Quarterly Journal of Speech: tandfonline.com/toc/rqjs20/99/2

And you can't go wrong if you do a google scholar search for your key terms: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&…

Could also just ping the #teamrhetoric hashtag to see who is available right away.

Like, it's great to reach out to political scientists like the super smart @LilyMasonPhD (yay, so happy to see you quoted here), but also there's a whole field of rhetoric & violence scholars who could also probably say some smart things about how violent words work.

I don't mean to be an a$$hole (AITA?), but part of what I've been trying to do with my public scholarship over the last few years is raise the profile of my field so reporters think of us when they write about things we're experts about. It's frustrating when they don't.

And there are many more experts on this! (more tk)

@KurtBraddock Kurt Braddock on rightwing stochastic terrorism
Heather Suzanne Woods & Leslie Ann Hahner on rightwing memes
@RhetoricPJ has a new book on conservative populism
Heather Hayes on violence & extremism