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Comment by onion2k

If I say "I don't like gays". How is that violent?

Speech can cause a physical reaction just as much as a punch in the face can. If someone says they hate you for existing that's violence.

This is a good explaination https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/sunday/when-is-sp...

Also "Redefining speech you don't like as 'violent' isn't right though." That's exactly what you're doing with the word 'violence' in your post. You're claiming it doesn't have a meaning that it definitely does, in the literal look-it-up-in-a-dictionary sense.

parent onion2k 4 years ago

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