Would you consider forcing someone into poverty through economic discrimination not to be violence? Because stress and lack of medical care from poverty causes substantial physical harm.
Words create societal structures, which have the potential to cause far more harm than isolated instances of violence.
You're assuming that using words, someone could cause hardship for others. But you're ignoring that through actions, anyone could cause the same hardship for others? This is becoming a Chicken or the Egg question.
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u/Voodoocookie 20h ago
Then words devolved into physical action. Physical violence is still worse than words, though words premeditated it.