> The poster never said they were meaningless, simply that they aren't violence. Indeed, and the top post in this thread didn’t use the word “violence.” The p

> The poster never said they were meaningless, simply that they aren't violence. Indeed, and the top post in this thread didn’t use the word “violence.” The point is that words do have profound impacts on society. Words can and do lead to material conditions which may cause actual harm to someone’s day to day life. As I said, regardless of where one falls on Facebook’s right to pick and choose their own standards, let’s not pretend words are so meaningless they will never lead to material changes in someone’s life. That’s a silly implication. We fight hard for speech precisely because words have so much power. Edit: clarifying.