When is Speech Violence?
Words can have a powerful effect on your nervous system. Certain types of adversity, even those involving no physical contact, can make you sick, alter your brain — even kill neurons — and shorten your life.
…Words can have a powerful effect on your nervous system. Certain types of adversity, even those involving no physical contact, can make you sick, alter your brain — even kill neurons — and shorten your life.
If you spend a lot of time in a harsh environment worrying about your safety, that’s the kind of stress that brings on illness and remodels your brain. That’s also true of a political climate in which groups of people endlessly hurl hateful words at one another, and of rampant bullying in school or on social media. A culture of constant, casual brutality is toxic to the body, and we suffer for it.
That’s why it’s reasonable, scientifically speaking, not to allow a provocateur and hatemonger like Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at your school. He is part of something noxious, a campaign of abuse.
…we must also halt speech that bullies and torments. From the perspective of our brain cells, the latter is literally a form of violence.
Speech is NEVER violence. PERIOD.
Do a thought experiment: Would you rather be tied to a chair and beaten or be tied to a chair and spoken to – however harshly?
Speech can, indeed, incite violence – but only a fool imagines them to be the same. Shakespeare’s Henry V’s speech before Agincourt incited violence, but the speech itself wasn’t violence.
Words and Acts are as different as different can be – the difference between a Thomas Edison and some fart-sniffer sitting in his mom’s basement talking shit.
Burning a flag is an ACT (of violence) – talking about burning a flag is SPEECH (about violence).
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“I’ve never met an asshole I didn’t like.”
-Pete Buttigieg
This NYT article is how the left justifies denying your first amendment right to free speech. And will be used to shut down “select” religions.
Tim burning a flag is not an act of violence. Not sure where you got that notion from. The SCOTUS determined years ago it is protected speech. Do I loathe those who burn out flag? Yes. Do I think it is violent? No not at all. I’d rather see idiots burn the flag than property.
Rick Monday and Tommy Lasorda of the LA Dodgers once tackled and knocked down a protestor running onto the field and burning the American flag during a baseball game, I still remember them doing that. Violent thugs are generally cowards who are full of hate or egged on by other thugs. They deserve to be smacked down and killed if necessary by people of good will who hate their violence.
demon-rat mofo’s “perform” violence, suck dick
mondaire jones: America would like freedom from negro violence, asshole
“white silence is violence” – suck dick, dindus
Stop2think,
Regardless of the decisions of the Solons of the SCROTUS, burning anything is an ACT. It is an ACTION – not an oral outgassing of mental flatulence.
One must take a flag (purchase or steal), soak it in lighter fluid, then light a match, or ignite a lighter, and set the flame to the flag. These ACTS require volition – movement – will – force – they are NOT words – regardless of the pretzel logic of the black-dressed assholes in DC.
The “judges” also declared that burning a “rainbow” flag, a BLM flag, an ANTIFA flag, and an ISIS flag, were ACTs of Terror.
Funny how that works, isn’t it?
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izlamo delenda est …