[irishloop]

Speech can absolutely be dangerous. Much of the run-up to the Holocaust was in dehumanizing and characterizing the Jews as money-sucking leeches bleeding Germany dry.

[pnw_hazor]

WW2 era Germans were dangerous. Speech didn't kill anyone.

[philwelch]

Much of the run up to the Holocaust was in establishing and propagandizing an authoritarian worldview while silencing the opposition with whatever tools were available.