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> Maybe the choice of language is strong but I don't think the word is being used incorrectly. My gripe is that it's manipulative rhetoric. The term "violence
by richbell 4y ago
> Maybe the choice of language is strong but I don't think the word is being used incorrectly.
My gripe is that it's manipulative rhetoric.
The term "violence" evokes very specific meaning to the average person, physical violence, and describing non-physical actions and concepts as "violence" is an attempt to manipulate people emotionally. If someone told you they were subject to violence at the airport would you really assume anything except physical assault or intimidation?
I have seen countless examples of activists calling speech they don't like "violence", "anti-blackness", or a myriad of other buzzwords — and I am talking about mild disagreements or asking for proof, not anything near hate-speech, bigotry, or promoting violence. It's a deliberate tactic to garner sympathy and support, and I do not like how normalized its use has become.
- dangus 4y agoHow is it manipulative? What is this person trying to manipulate us into believing? They're just saying that authorities tend to give them a hard time more frequently than more conventionally accepted groups, which doesn't sound like much of a stretch to me.
- FrontierPsych 4y agoI went to a hotel, and they had the softest down mattresses and $4,000 pillows and $8,000 softest sheets and $15,000 blankets. I thought this was extreme violence to make me feel so non-violent and comfortable, because after all, the United States of America is violent against every other person in the world,even their own citizens, so my supreme comfort was violence as they made me feel comfortable to forget how violent the world and the USA is. My being the most comfortable and the most safe I've ever been is the most extreme violence that the USA can do to me.