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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 18 Jul 2017

    One of the worst arguments of all time: "Speech is a form of violence." Coyne shows why. https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-worst-argument-yet-that-speech-can-be-violence-science-can-tell-us-which-speech-should-be-banned/ … via @Evolutionistrue

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      1. jason  🦄  🇯🇵  ❤️‏Verified account @Jason 18 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Please put a #triggerwarning on these hurtful characters Steven! #safespace

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      1. Amanda F. Claireston‏ @amclaireston 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        'speech is violence' is still a working theory; what to do about it is another topic; aiding childish students is yet another.

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      1. Wagner's music‏ @Wagnersmusic1 19 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Steve_Sailer @Evolutionistrue

        This point was made by 19th cent moralists or the slippery slope, platos noble lie. It's a moral habit.

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      1.  🌹SocialDemocrat 🌹‏ @JulianFeikTechi 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Edsall @Evolutionistrue

        That Rwanda genocide where the radio was used to demonize and then incite violence against a racial minority. #Racism #Fascism. #AltCenter

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      1. Dr. Ryan McCourt‏ @MarcCountry 19 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        "Speech is violence" is directly analogous to the equally inane contemporary meme that "cultural appropriation is theft" #AppropriationPrize

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      1. Not the voice of reason!‏ @blastphemist 19 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Can speech lead to stress?? Look at rise of hate after election. Imagine being told u're dumb or labeled a rapist b/c you're black.

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      1. MartyPants‏ @SmartWhiteKids 19 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Even if one accepts this premise, that speech-->stress=violence, (I don't!) it's got to cut both ways. Hostile student body "harms" as well.

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      1. latsot‏ @latsot 19 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @sherlockmichael @Evolutionistrue

        As a child, speech was systematically and relentlessly used to hurt me *every single day* for years. I consider that violence.

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      1.  🌹SocialDemocrat 🌹‏ @JulianFeikTechi 19 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Tell that to the survivors of Rwanda Genocide.

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      1. Herr Wärn‏ @Projectionist76 18 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Very Orwellian

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      1. Mike Chevalier‏ @mikeTakesKnight 18 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Mr Pinker does not like that recent increases in speech have sunk his thesis on ever decreasing violence. QED.

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      1. 41solstice25‏ @WinterSolstice8 18 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @CHSommers @Evolutionistrue

        Once I see ceiling cat used to a page on violence, I know they're actually just watching people fap.

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      2. Nick Nelson‏ @thenicknelson 18 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Speech can do psychological damage far worse than the physical damage of a punch—but this article draws absurd conclusions from there.

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      3. ChezickA‏ @chezick_allen 18 Jul 2017
        Replying to @thenicknelson @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Yes and no . Mechanism is where reality manifests its self, you can't have one without the other. #strawman #think

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      1. Christian Vantu‏ @TheVantu 18 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        I am in the 'pew pew' gang. Mess with us, and we will finger shoot, "pew pew pew".

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      1. Rob Waldeck‏ @Robertwaldeck 18 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @CHSommers @Evolutionistrue

        Only if you point a gun at someone and say you are going to shoot them

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