Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey 1. Parents or guardians verbally denigrating young children is both an outlier in terms of capacity of mere speech to harm & not a kind of speech that ever comes up in debates on public discourse limits. 2. Sufficiently hard fists everyday *would* do more harm than words. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 15, 2022

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

This is an underappreciated point. To a large though not total extent, we can control how we react to words, especially with practice and reflection. Socializing people to believe otherwise and depriving them entirely of those tools *harms them*. — PolitiTweet.org

People often experience words as violence because they’ve been indoctrinated to do so. Laws should be based on untu… https://t.co/RmrpySYrag

Posted Aug. 15, 2022

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@ijbailey Can you point to a single commentator, even at a fringe outlet, who is against stigmatizing the verbal abuse of children by their guardians? I don't understand how this example bears on any of the actual debates about free speech culture or law that are happening in America. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 15, 2022