Yes, when I see posts identical to this it's usually in the context of "left wing antifa violence is more common than right wing violence." Which makes me wary enough of this post already.

Reddit votes are about relevance not agreement.

Judging by the response to OOP, I’d guess the original context was somebody punching a racist or something. IE if my guess is right OOP is saying [anti-racist] violence is worse than [racist] words, which explains the negative reaction

If anyone has a source for this to confirm/deny it’d be appreciated tho

I think its more that the racist words and racists violence are not two seperate entities that can be tackled independently

And thats what the person is attempting to do, essentially cut one head off the hydra knowing 2 more will emerge

The common link is not just the words, its not just the violence, its that and the infinite spectrum of ramnifications of people thinking there are greater and lesser people than themselves

Yes violent acts are worse than verbal acts Traumas should not be compared, all victems are valid, and words can be used violently.

But racism is bigger than words and violence, and saying "oh the racist violence is worse than the racist words, so we should be focusing in on the violence" is ignorant, and purposefully looks for a tree so as to not see the forest.

Racism is born of generational societal systemic levels of suffering - it requires generational societal systemic levels of healing to reduce its harm.

I imagine the poster was arguing against punching Nazis.

Which come on, no people were ever hurt by punching Nazis.

Honestly I wish my parents would have just beat me

Racism isn't just verbal. It is violent and deadly. Racist violence is just as deserving of being considered violence. Racism is often violent. It should not be categorized as a thing you can compare to violence because racism is also violent.

They just want to make the words acceptable today so they can pre-justify the violence tomorrow.

The overlap between edgelords and racists is significant

While deliberately failing to acknowledge racism leads to violence.

Not all violence is physical

I'm just waiting for some genius to come and try to "iamverysmart" you and be like "Aren't you being hypocritical by saying the fascists aren't people?" just completely missing the point, LMAO.

Minus and minus is plus, i learned that in maffs

I'm sure he said something equivalent while he wasn't dead.

"I can excuse the racism but I can not excuse them being late with the fresh made at the table guacamole again"

"they are eating the dogs the people that came in there"

I would buy a punctuation, Pat

Also im pretty sure the phrase "actual violence" in any context gets you a 3 week ban.

Appeal that ban? Permaban.