"The idea that anything that causes harm is violence is downright silly" When something is "silly", this is an important sensation you should grasp at, not dis

"The idea that anything that causes harm is violence is downright silly" When something is "silly", this is an important sensation you should grasp at, not dismiss, because silliness is nothing but a reveal of your innermost biases. Furthermore you are setting up a straw man. The article does not say: "speech causes harm, if x causes harm, x is violence, therefore speech is violence", which is what you seem to be arguing. Violence, obviously, is meaningless unless there is some person behind the violent act. This is why your silly sentence "bananas are literally violence" is incoherent: you are confusing an act, a verb (speech) with a thing, a noun (banana).