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People who equate speech with violence are usually looking for a way to respond to speech with violence.
by fallingknife 4y ago
People who equate speech with violence are usually looking for a way to respond to speech with violence.
- pessimizer 4y agoAgreed. It's an announcement that you've determined that some speech has to be crushed, but also preemptively framing it as self-defense. It's like when you first hear about Libertarians having a Non-Aggression Principle at their core, but then you start to hear how they redefine "aggression." In a very similar way, when Group A starts calling Group B "terrorist," it's really an announcement that Group A is going to be compromising their own professed ethics and processes to destroy Group B. It's an announcement of martial law, not a label that reliably describes any particular behavior by "terrorist" groups. Speech- and thought-violence rhetoric is just empty rationalization and crybully rhetoric from the powerless, but it's often a prelude to a brutal crackdown when it comes from the powerful.
- flippinburgers 4y agoYou bring up a very observable fact about how the extreme left is approaching the right via antifa. I don't see a reason for downvotes.
- fallingknife 4y agoMy comment is not directed towards any one political orientation.