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.

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.

Words are absolutely violence. Read a little history. Start with Germany and Rwanda.

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”.