Minor quibble: the messaging is violent. It is designed to stir (mostly negative) emotional reactions which are then used for even more violent rhetoric.
So, yes it appeals to violent people, but it also makes people hateful and violent.
There’s a word for it in German: Volksverhetzung and there’s law against it since after WW2. Guess why.
When you design your messaging to appeal to the most violent of people, you will get violence. Politics be damned at this point.
Minor quibble: the messaging is violent. It is designed to stir (mostly negative) emotional reactions which are then used for even more violent rhetoric.
So, yes it appeals to violent people, but it also makes people hateful and violent.
There’s a word for it in German: Volksverhetzung and there’s law against it since after WW2. Guess why.