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It's intellectual violence which consumes the time of people of good intent by insisting that they do significant labor to support elements and details of an ar
by sgt101 6y ago
It's intellectual violence which consumes the time of people of good intent by insisting that they do significant labor to support elements and details of an argument that are generally held to be self evident and true. Things like racism are included - for example "the KKK is a terrible organisation that hurt many people"... "have you got personal experience of this?".."how many KKK attacks have there been in Suffolk England this year?".."what percentage of KKK members have participates in racial murders".."are you sure that the murders are all actually terrible - maybe there were reasons - afterall we weren't there"... and so on and so on and so on...
- JasonFruit 6y agoRenaming disagreement, even in bad faith, as "violence" is unnecessarily tendentious and weakens the concept of actual violence. It colors and lessens the effect of the rest of what you said, which is all just fine. I find that a far more bad-faith technique of discussion than sealioning.
- hirundo 6y agoTo call it intellectual violence tends to justify the use of force to oppose it. And it softens the definition of violence by inappropriate analogy. Even in the extreme case you describe, and even assuming that such questions are insincere (which I don't), it's still only rude and annoying behavior, far from violence.