In her book The First Stone, Helen Garner describes how leftist activists expanded the term “violence” to include “actions that displease me.”
She was strongly criticized for her analysis back in the 1990s. Today, however, we see how the concept of violence has been expanded some more to mean “words that displease me.”
We are well on our way to accepting that violence includes “thoughts that displease me.” In the more radical leftist circles, the idea has been floated that violence includes “having to see people whose physical appearance displeases me.”
There seems to be no limit to where an expansion of a concept can lead.
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“accepting that violence includes “thoughts that displease me.””
I think it’s well past that and getting close to “existences that displease me”.
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We all know what the (final) solution to that is.
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“Words are violence” is so 2015. During the 2020 Saint George Floyd riots we had “Silence is violence.” Get with the program!
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I think I repressed. It was too unpleasant to remember that little gem.
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“Words are violence” is so 2015. During the 2020 Saint George Floyd riots we had “Silence is violence.” Get with the program!
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