Those who condemn the expression of violence but are not willing to condemn the vigorous and consistent spread of irresponsible false narratives - especially when they know damn well they’re false - are as culpable of violence as are the vulnerable suckers who believe their lies.
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You are insightful on many topics, so it's a disappointment how wrong you are on others. Living in a free society means we are exposed to false narratives, and every individual must act their own arbiter of truth. Words are powerful, but they are not violence.
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Replying to @LauraPowellEsq @_iaura_
Words are absolutely violence. Read a little history. Start with Germany and Rwanda.

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Replying to @marwilliamson @_iaura_
We have a president that declared half of the country “semi-fascists”. Does that provoke violence? Most of the acts of violence can somehow be traced to a belief or a principle that were developed based on “words”.
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Actually he didn’t
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The idea that words are violence presents an existential threat to free society. The fact that it has becoming a mainstream viewpoint terrifies me. Here is one poignant example:
Bari Weiss
 @bariweiss
14 Aug 2022
We live in a culture in which many of the most celebrated people occupying the highest perches believe that words are violence. In this, they have much in common with the Iranian Ayatollah who issued the first fatwa against Salman Rushdie: commonsense.news/p/we-ignore…
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Replying to @marwilliamson @_iaura_
Eww, how patronizing.
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Nonsense
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Hitler was elected. The government was given too much power. They abused it. The problem is giving unchecked power to authority not freedom of speech.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @_iaura_
Words are not violence. And your “start with Germany and Rwanda” doesn’t say anything to refute that. People CHOOSE to be violent.
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