But words ARE violence. Why, just yesterday a conjunctive adverb nearly bit my head off. However...
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Milo in these speeches identifies illegal immigrants on campus and rallies people against them. I wish these pieces would mention that.
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Not if it incites hate or violence. And a disturbing undertone can be used to do this without using violent or hateful terms.
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Particularly then. If you can't distinguish words from violence, you can't function at all.
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So you argue that inciting a riot should therefore not be a crime? Conspiracy should be legal? Yeah, right.
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And yet that is exactly your claim. Words are words. There is no such thing as conspiracy without act, that mob rule doesn't exist.
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So you would agree that words can be hateful, vengeful, incite violence? Or what is your argument?
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I hope that title was chosen by The Atlantic: it is a bad idea to tell students about reality because it is not politically convenient?
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No the authors also say it themselves: "This is why the idea that speech is violence is so dangerous." That is so sad.
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The NYT article jumps to conclusions, as the authors rightly say. No need to tell people that speaking about a fact they accept is bad.
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Well who dun woulda' thunk it. Expanding the definition of violence to include normal things, makes people think violence is normal.
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Part of me thinks,"this patronises students" as if they'd accept anything they're told! Then I think, "Oh" also "God" and so on.
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Publicly outing an LGB or Trans person without their consent is violence. It can result in economic deprivation, physical assault, or worse
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But it's true. You can seriously offend through them and sometimes consequences are unpredictible for the offended person
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Article seems impossibly naive in that the authors seem to buy Fox 'news' talking points about s's needing safe spaces from offence. Much bs
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I'm never offended by words in conversation, unless I determine it was intentional. I come from the "words will never hurt me" generation.
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