I'm sure I could train myself to find this argument so upsetting it would induce a stress response, but... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/sunday/when-is-speech-violence.html …
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Replying to @ByrneHobart
I guess it's a good question to ask: if speech is actually, physically harmful, should we ban it?
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Replying to @ByrneHobart
But the meta question is: has it always been harmful, or have we gotten worse at handling upsetting speech?
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Replying to @ByrneHobart
If the latter, it's like responding to the obesity epidemic by requiring everyone to use a rascal scooter rather than walking.
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Replying to @ByrneHobart
If one credits this: memeplexes which reduce your body's ability to avoid physical harm from speech are socially contagious. Basilisks.
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Replying to @patio11
Thus if you teach a room full of impressionable undergrads that the word microaggression exists, you increase the experience of them by lots
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It's perhaps conceivable that that could cause more literal seizures over next 20 years than a Pikachu incident being rebroadcast.
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