NY Times: When Is Speech Violence?

The New York Times has a new article that argues politically incorrect speech is an act of violence because it causes chronic stress which can shorten your life span:

“Your body also contains little packets of genetic material that sit on the ends of your chromosomes. They’re called telomeres. Each time your cells divide, their telomeres get a little shorter, and when they become too short, you die. This is normal aging. But guess what else shrinks your telomeres? Chronic stress.

If words can cause stress, and if prolonged stress can cause physical harm, then it seems that speech — at least certain types of speech — can be a form of violence. But which types? …

The scientific findings I described above provide empirical guidance for which kinds of controversial speech should and shouldn’t be acceptable on campus and in civil society. In short, the answer depends on whether the speech is abusive or merely offensive.” …

That’s why it’s reasonable, scientifically speaking, not to allow a provocateur and hatemonger like Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at your school. He is part of something noxious, a campaign of abuse. There is nothing to be gained from debating him, for debate is not what he is offering. …”

Why should the coddled majority feel threatened though?

The intellectual climate on college campuses and in the corporate workplace affirms their values. They aren’t the ones who are physically attacked by Antifa gangs for expressing an opinion. They aren’t the ones who suffer from employment discrimination or public accommodations discrimination for their beliefs. There are no social and economic penalties for engaging in politically correct speech.

We’re the ones who are suffering from “long stretches of simmering stress.” If you subscribe to our worldview, then you have a front row seat to the demise of our race and civilization. The topic is on our minds every single day of our lives. Those of us who choose to be activists and publicly sound the alarm about our impending doom routinely suffer from all kinds of verbal abuse.

By their own reasoning, the Left is shortening our telomeres because the stress that they have imposed on the White community is an act of violence. Are we justified in violently retaliating?

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17 Comments

  1. Kill them all…let God sort them out.

    They are getting close to saying it.

  2. The failed, thoroughly discredited Jew York Times (aka, the Grey Yenta) is not even worth mentioning, except for teh lulz.

  3. It’s in the interest of Yankee Jewry to expand the definition of hate-speech being violence to include wedding invitations and end-zone celebrations.

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    If memory serves : the Supreme Court has, however, already defined it – only words of violence, which imply an imminent threat to someone very specifick and nearby, qualify for those which have any basis for legal censorship.

    • If you want to talk northerners the italians are as bad as the jews in this regard, or thereabouts. Check out the Amanda Knox case, where the sandnigger prosecutor framed Knox through his power over the media. In Italy there is no free speech. And prosecutors work with the cops to find the perp, as opposed to be separated in the phases of justice.

      There’s more and more, but it’s not just the jews who are collapsing the Bill of Rights in the North.

      But I don’t agree, junius, that the southern jews aren’t totally in on Jewmerica at large anyway.

  4. ‘By their own reasoning, the Left is shortening our telomeres because the stress that they have imposed on the White community is an act of violence. Are we justified in violently retaliating?’

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    Justified, perhaps, however, not wise.

    The way we get them is by stoically taking everything they have to throw at us, while patiently constructing our bastions and siege towers, at which point they are complete, we can do proper violence to those ideas of theirs which have enslaved us.

  5. we have to watch gay pride parades and pride days at campus and porn and profanity and blasphemy, but a few words uttered calmly in a rational discussion will melt the snowflakes?

  6. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

  7. What they fail to mention is that getting your view out there and unbottling your concerns is good and healthy for you. Keeping rage inside shortens your life.
    In any case, is speech only violent when it comes from concerned white nationalists?
    How about the speeches and views of the Left, BLM and Islamists?
    Just more BS to try and shut down genuine concerns. Did the SPLC have a hand in this?

  8. White law only punishes illegal actions never words of any kind. Freedom of speech as the founders intended is absolute and even protects death threats.

    • You got it. The future of western civilization will be decided in the next year or two.

      We have that little time. After that the demographic deluge will drown us, and the jews will have fully installed their Stasi State. We will have freedoms in name only.

  9. 2% run the show have created intolerable condition. There are signs already whites emotion amplified in many ways. Trump.

  10. All this cheering on of white people being replaced and dying out is causing permanent stress for me, too. So can I “defend myself” against the next person who cheers on White Genocide on twitter, (((Wapo)))? Or doesn`t it work both ways?

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