{"id":40027,"date":"2019-09-10T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40027"},"modified":"2019-09-09T08:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:57:51","slug":"qotd-mere-words-are-not-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/09\/10\/qotd-mere-words-are-not-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Mere words are not &#8220;violence&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I&#8217;m very concerned about a phenomenon called &#8216;concept creep&#8217; \u2013 which has been happening to a lot of psychological terms since the 1990s&#8221;, he says. &#8220;When a word like &#8216;violence&#8217; is allowed to creep so that it includes a lot of things that are not violence, then this causes a cascade of bad effects. It&#8217;s bad for the students themselves because they now perceive an idea that they dislike, or a speaker that they dislike, as having committed a much graver offence against themselves \u2013 which means that they will perceive more victimisation of themselves. And it&#8217;s also really bad for society because, as we are seeing in a spectacular way in the United States this year, when each side can point to rampant occurrences of what they see as violence by the other side, this then justifies acts of actual physical violence on their side. And there&#8217;s no obvious end to this mutual escalation process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He adds: &#8220;Everybody involved in education needs to be dampening down violence and the acceptance of violence. Telling students that words are violence is counterproductive to that effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Haidt, quoted by Naomi Firsht, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/spiked-review\/article\/the-fragile-generation#.WaoXBNEpCfC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Fragile Generation&#8221;, <em>Spiked<\/em><\/a>, 2017-08-31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very concerned about a phenomenon called &#8216;concept creep&#8217; \u2013 which has been happening to a lot of psychological terms since the 1990s&#8221;, he says. &#8220;When a word like &#8216;violence&#8217; is allowed to creep so that it includes a lot of things that are not violence, then this causes a cascade of bad effects. 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