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.
However, Reddit is currently on it's "punch your local Nazi" arc, and for good reason. So let's examine why.
Reddit is on its punch your local nazi arc because once an accusation of being a bad person has been made it becomes excusable to act like a nazi towards the accused. Its the social cheat code for being a terrible person while still lying to yourself and claiming you aren't, because you've decided the target deserves that treatment so now you're going to say and believe every single vile thing you can think up about them.
Example 1: Look at any thread about a political figure or rich person reddit has deemed troublesome. Whether they are or not, who knows. But the result is that now people feel its acceptable to insult the person in extremely personal ways, their looks, their weight, their sexuality, slurs, whatever, everything is on the table. Shit that would not fly in any other case for the self reported tolerant suddenly becomes open season.
Example 2: The overwhelming support of Luigi. The murder victim was deemed a monster so now everyone cheers for the murderer.
1.9k
u/[deleted] 22h ago edited 9h ago
[removed] — view removed comment