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duxup
Could have sworn I saw a post from the same site arguing they were ... submitted a lot to HN.
rolph
weapons dont spring into being and kill people by themselves.

someone creates them, and someone wields them.

words are tools, tools wielded for injurious purpose are weapons.

wielding a weapon is violence.

and that is how words wielded for injurious purpose ARE violence.

lordkrandel
Words can be violence. If they are hate speech or bring hate. In Italy, that's punished with reclusion and fines. Democracy cannot tolerate violence, and has to use its order forces to contain it. And words of hate can demean, insult, ruin people's life. That's violence, hurts, even if not phisically. People suicide over words, so, words kill.
hugneutron
That’s a very dangerous viewpoint. By your logic, anyone can claim someone’s else’s speech is hate speech in order to justify physical violence.

In fact, I think your claim that words are violence IS hate speech.

beardyw
Losing you job because of your views is not violence, but it may as well be. Fearing authority, having to move away from your home, none of these is violence but they are real and unacceptable. The author here is playing with words.