Where politicians are inflammatory, there is more violence

In a survey of 156 countries from 2000 to 2017, places where politicians "never" or "rarely" used hate speech saw fewer average incidents of domestic terrorism than countries where politicians used hate speech "sometimes," and far fewer than places where politicians "often" or "extremely often" engaged in hate speech.

Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: James Piazza, Pennsylvania State Get the data