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by pas 242 days ago
please point out any and all verbs or other terms that call for any kind of action. so you found 'remove', right? it's a call for ceasing friendship. is that considered violence?
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You do realize what happened with Charlie Kirk is the apex of what happens when dehumanization language is left unfettered, right?
Words do have meanings. That comment may be cruel, but nothing in it is dehumanizing -- unlike, for example, this quote:

"Mere weeks before his death, Kirk reveled in Trump's deployment of federal troops to DC. 'Shock and awe. Force,' he wrote. 'We're taking our country back from these cockroaches.'"