90% of undergrads believe words can be violence

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Anyone who believes words are violence clearly do not understand violence.

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Ironically, they are the ones who use vastly more verbal violence.

Frustrated, violent children who were never taught the concept of "No", who are learning that there's a lot they don't get away with any more.

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[d0gbreath]

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Ironically, they are the ones who use vastly more verbal violence.

Frustrated, violent children who were never taught the concept of "No", who are learning that there's a lot they don't get away with any more.

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There is no such thing as "verbal violence". Shouting matches may escalate into throwing hands, knives, guns etc, but words will never hurt me.

 

[marvin martian]

“When people start thinking that words can be violence, violence becomes an acceptable response to words,”

• Nine out of ten undergrads believe that “words can be violence”
• Differences in views becoming more stark between liberal and conservative students

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2, 2025 — Ninety one percent of undergraduate students believe that words can be violence, according to a new poll by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and College Pulse.

The survey’s findings are especially startling coming in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination — an extreme and tragic example of the sharp difference between words and violence.

“When people start thinking that words can be violence, violence becomes an acceptable response to words,” said FIRE Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens. “Even after the murder of Charlie Kirk at a speaking event, college students think that someone’s words can be a threat. This is antithetical to a free and open society, where words are the best alternative to political violence.”

FIRE poll: 90% of undergrads believe words can be violence even after killing of Charlie Kirk

Ninety one percent of undergraduate students believe that words can be violence, according to a new poll by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and College Pulse.

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Ironically, silence is also violence to some. You can't say stuff the mob doesn't like. You can't even remain silent. Good speech will be compelled by the threat or use of actual violence!

That doesn't bode well for all the lefties calling us Nazis, fascists, threats to democracy, and Hitler.

Pretty much anything we do at this point can be considered self defense, after Joe Biden called us all "garbage".

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

There is no such thing as "verbal violence". Shouting matches may escalate into throwing hands, knives, guns etc, but words will never hurt me.

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Tell those who are trying to convince you otherwise.

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[22lcidw]

They must be following Trump's lead.

Trump Loses It on Paramount Over 60 Minutes Sit-Down With ‘Traitor’ Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP!’

Trump demanded a “total APOLOGY” from 60 Minutes and raged that Paramount was “NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP.”

www.mediaite.com

Do you believe that if our nation went Communist that all citizens and illegals would live with all the comforts of life? That is not happening.

 

[d0gbreath]

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Tell those who are trying to convince you otherwise.

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You said it; I just read it.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

You said it; I just read it.

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Perhaps Santa needs to bring you a few reading comprehension classes for Christmas.

But thanks for trying.




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[d0gbreath]

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Perhaps Santa needs to bring you a few reading comprehension classes for Christmas.

But thanks for trying.




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You misspelled Satan.

 

[Dekster]

Maybe so, but the 1A's guarantee of freedom of speech, especially political speech, is hopefully more stationary.

We have a Secretary of Defense wanting to court martial a Senator who said the same thing the Secretary said before he was Secretary of Defense and a President who allegedly created in insurrection for using the same language democrats used regularly and a Supreme Court that is about the decide a case whether part of the constitution is constitutional regarding citizenship. Nothing is stationary other than perhaps that whole quartering troops in people's homes thing.

 

[IM2]

Words spoken can incite violence.

 

[petro]

Words can only hurt the weak minded.

These ******* pussies would have never survived Gen X.

 

[Eman623]

Words spoken can incite violence.

True, But that does not justify the violence.

 

[Eman623]

There is no such thing as "verbal violence". Shouting matches may escalate into throwing hands, knives, guns etc, but words will never hurt me.

Indeed. What is it they say?

This can break bones.

This can never hurt you.

 

[scruffy]

It's just more gaslighting from the left.

Don't believe a WORD any.leftard tells you. They lie. All the time. About everything. It's what they do.

 

[August West]

When did Americans become such a bunch of pussies?

Of course this is the direct result of the fact conservatives are intellectual creatures seeking to resolve problems with thoughts and word, whereas liberals are violent and thuggish creatures unable to compete on that level. By making mere words tools of violence, liberals are justifying their thuggish nature. How sad.

A gun-soaked country is a pussified country.

 

[Zincwarrior]

A gun-soaked country is a pussified country.

Chunk is offended!

 

[marvin martian]

Words spoken can incite violence.

Only among low-impulse control idiots like you.

 

[Rogue AI]

A gun-soaked country is a pussified country.

We wouldn't have won the West with crisis counselors. Try harder.

 

[M14 Shooter]

A gun-soaked country is a pussified country.

Said no one capable of rational thought, ever.

 

[August West]

We wouldn't have won the West with crisis counselors. Try harder.

How many Native Americans have you shot this week? Quite a few of my relatives were and still are hunters, but I`m not aware of any of them getting a concealed carry cowboy/***** license.