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Why don't you test your theory by walking up to some people and calling them slurs. See if they all shrug it off because at least you're not a cop shooting them.


That would fall outside the bounds of words on a screen, written indiscriminately.


It was a claim about hate speech and not "words on a screen." But you could try texting people you know if you think that dimension is important.


Sure you just need to dress up as a cop and shoot them for the control group.


Except when the people hurling racial abuse are just winding themselves up to committing a murder[1].

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/09/us/ajike-owens-shooting-d...


So let's do Minority Report and ban the things leading up to the crimes!

That's totally affordable to a free society, right?


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You mean another example of someone hurling abuse where it turns out they were not harmless and in fact fully intended to escalate?

i.e literally the exact same thing




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