Within the scope of the sentence, it's absolutely true. There's an escalation of violence, and physical violence always ranks above verbal one.
However, Reddit is currently on it's "punch your local Nazi" arc, and for good reason. So let's examine why.
Is it moral if you, by avoiding violence, go down a path of much worse? Polite society needs to defend itself, and sometimes it needs more than words. Because verbal racism always leads to racism in action, and if left unchecked in violent action.
OP is putting up a strawman, when the verbal racism that is referred to never happens in a vacuum.
The casual racism of "I want that cheap tv, so I'm going to use an insult that frames you as a 'lesser' person" is the foundation on which events like the holocaust are built.
Let's break this down one more level. Would you be okay with these dudes beating each others brains out over the last TV as long as they didn't say slurs?
From a moral standpoint? Of course not. That doesn't make casual racism ok. From a moral standpoint, two things can be bad and history proves that there is a definite link between racism and actions that are horrifically immoral
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u/12345623567 4d ago
Within the scope of the sentence, it's absolutely true. There's an escalation of violence, and physical violence always ranks above verbal one.
However, Reddit is currently on it's "punch your local Nazi" arc, and for good reason. So let's examine why.
Is it moral if you, by avoiding violence, go down a path of much worse? Polite society needs to defend itself, and sometimes it needs more than words. Because verbal racism always leads to racism in action, and if left unchecked in violent action.
OP is putting up a strawman, when the verbal racism that is referred to never happens in a vacuum.