[ogou]

Speech is not violence.

[laughing_man]

True. People define the speech of others as violence because they think it makes a violent response into self defense. It isn't true and never has been. If you're responding to speech with violence... you're the baddie.

[oxonia]

I think packetlost knows that. I think the argument being put forward was that "if you are the kind of person that thinks that speech is violence, then you would believe that allowing someone a platform..."

[totallymike]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

[bobsmooth]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiction

[packetlost]

This was sarcasm.

[hackable_sand]

Don't be naive.

[kbelder]

Ouch!