Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey Your "I know it when I see it" approach is a bad one to tout because it's the same subjective one that allows Rushdie's attackers to muddy the distinction between his writing a book and them stabbing him for it. They "knew" his book was "violence" when they saw it. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 14, 2022

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey Again, you are presuming that if something causes physical harm that means it is violence, but that assumption is erroneous. Lots of things-food, drugs, stress over debt-can cause physical harm without being violence, which you have no coherent definition of — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 14, 2022

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@ijbailey And to that I say, no, words are not violence. What Rushdie wrote and stabbing him for it are utterly distinguishable. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 14, 2022