Comment by salawat
11 days ago
I sympathize, and also tend to the left, but please, I beg of you, redefine violence to include long term, intentional creation and operation of fraudulent or harmful enterprise. It takes energy to keep doing things wrong to that degree, and without real signs of behavioral modification that stick, the safest damn thing to do is keep them the hell away.
Violence has a specific meaning, and twisting yourself into knots in order to define things you don't like as violence is dishonest.