But they can hurt physically. Insults around race or religion could radicalise someone and ultimately lead them to some horrible act of terror or setting up a gang fight. Eating disorders, self harm, even suicide can be triggered by careless words
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Words most certainly can. I could post a ton of links on the psychological effects of words, how they're used to control and undermine people, how pejoratives have been used to intimidate racial groups from Germany to South Africa to the Deep South, how even the white working class are starting...
The two things are completely separate so I have no idea why we'd compare them. Both are wrong but the degree of wrongness is different
The idea that casual racism among this country's leaders is acceptable because other people made bombs in the 1970s is bizarre
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