postyX - Maple Syrup & Mayhem #9-Words as Violence

00:00:00.000 Well, the Toronto District School Board is investigating after a teacher reportedly showed

00:00:04.180 part of the video of Kirk's assassination to some young students. The school board has not

00:00:09.660 released the name of the teacher, only that they were a staff member at the Corvette Junior Public

00:00:14.340 School. I thought I'd do a quick check-in after yesterday and all of the drama. I want to

00:00:18.860 reiterate that it is not wrong or unethical or unkind to laugh at the misfortunes of terrible

00:00:25.340 people that Charlie Kirk incited violence. That's what he did.

00:00:34.300 So, I'm recording now. Would you like to give your name? No. Okay. Why are you here protesting

00:00:45.020 at the Charlie Kirk vigil today? I actually don't want to give an interview. You don't

00:00:48.820 want to do an interview? This man is worse than the death of children and said that any deaths

00:00:53.640 of gun violence are worth it for the Second Amendment. What else do I need to say? I don't

00:00:59.480 know. That's all I need.

00:01:01.820 Charlie Kirk got shot and he's dead. Ha ha ha ha. Finally, finally, somebody with a gun,

00:01:07.960 which is almost everybody in the fucking states, grew a pair and fucking went and shot somebody 0.99

00:01:12.040 on the right side. Thank you. Can we keep this up, please? 1.00

00:01:14.780 I think that this push for mass firings could become quite significant and it already, already

00:01:20.720 is. I mean, compared to the aftermath of January 6th, this does seem to be turning into a very

00:01:26.380 aggressive attempt to purge not just, you know, government officials or in the Hexeth example

00:01:32.340 in the Defense Department, but also specifically people who work in education, who work in health

00:01:37.920 care, who work in government. Those are the fields that a lot of these right wing figures

00:01:41.680 have been mentioning over and over again when talking about how just random internet users

00:01:46.540 have responded to this shooting. 24 hours later.

00:01:51.200 So I received information that I've been doxxed on X, so I'm going to have to step away for a little

00:01:56.460 bit and the AFP have been contacted and also the eSafety Commission as well have been contacted

00:02:04.040 because there's been a large number of threats coming through. And the irony of this situation

00:02:11.140 that all I did was say some words that offended some people and now people have decided to take

00:02:18.080 that into the real world and start, you know, threatening and harassing and abusing people

00:02:25.240 out in the real world based on their inability to manage their emotions. 0.99

00:02:29.740 What the fuck are you supposed to do when you get fired? You just take it? You just take it like a man? 0.99

00:02:36.860 I'm unemployed. What am I supposed to do now, dude? I go home and goom? Like, guys, what do I do?

00:02:43.400 I think I'm fired!

00:02:46.080 I got me fired with my dad! 0.99

00:02:48.300 I woke up, I told him I took the ship of the 22nd ship of yesterday, what the fuck? 0.99

00:02:54.020 I'm gonna pay my rent! 1.00

00:02:55.580 What the fuck, y'all? I thought y'all would think I could be fired when y'all did it! 1.00

00:03:02.900 So, on the heels of the whole Charlie Kirk assassination and inevitable cancelling of the left,

00:03:12.180 I thought I would talk about the whole words as violence because this is where, this is what this is,

00:03:20.220 like, where it's coming from. This is initially, you know, what started this whole thing is

00:03:24.480 the fact that many, you know, mostly liberals, feel that words are actual violence.

00:03:31.600 So, I wanted to look into the history and where that came from and when did we shift

00:03:36.180 from words being just words to words being actual violence.

00:03:41.820 We transitioned to a societal shift regarding hate speech mid-20th century, post-World War II,

00:03:48.520 although it did gain momentum from the 60s onward, it gained actually more momentum,

00:03:53.400 but it did actually come out of the results of World War II. It was peddled as efforts to combat

00:03:59.660 discrimination and promote human rights. However, the elephant that still remains in the room is

00:04:06.160 what humans deserve those rights. So, when they say human rights, do they mean, you know, humans from

00:04:12.640 that? Like, I guess I should say when they say human rights, they kind of are using that term to make

00:04:17.540 people feel bad, but it really should be citizen rights, the citizens of that country, right? That's

00:04:22.880 where it really, you know, should be, but they say human rights. It coincided with the shifts in

00:04:28.660 immigration policies, which is obviously another video, and there's many more people more educated

00:04:33.940 on that that can actually, you know, give a more in-depth look at that. But it did start with the

00:04:39.180 whole, you know, shift in immigration policies and diversity that, you know, we've all come to

00:04:44.240 enjoy. You know, in my opinion, the Jews really wanted to punish the Aryans for the attempts to 0.99

00:04:53.320 remove them from Germany. But I digress. The key milestones of this was 1940 to 1950, laws emerged in 0.87

00:05:02.860 Europe, particularly Germany, to prevent the resurgence of the National Socialist ideology.

00:05:09.920 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, it set the tone and it influenced the later laws.

00:05:18.040 Then we get to the 1960s and the 70s, where the civil rights movement in the US, Canada, Europe

00:05:22.800 pushed for laws to protect against racial and ethnic discrimination. Canada's criminal code added

00:05:29.200 hate propaganda provisions in 1970, and the UK's Race Relations Act of 1965, criminalized incitement

00:05:37.780 to racial hatred. Now, what I noticed while I was doing this research is that you, the laws are

00:05:44.780 purposely vague, so as to be as far reaching as possible. What does incitement to racial hatred even

00:05:51.860 mean? After the Jews were successful in pushing through these laws that are really nothing more than 0.98

00:05:57.840 censorship and attacks on free thought. They, in typical Jew fashion, pushed for even more 1.00

00:06:03.660 restrictions. And then we got into the 80s and 90s, where this is where, you know, they really, well,

00:06:09.160 this is where they really started to get some clout in this area and get some leverage. So laws expanded

00:06:17.420 to cover more groups, a whittled down more specific focus, religion and sexual orientation, who, if you are

00:06:25.580 a noticer like me, you'll notice, or you'll realize rather, that the religion of Christianity and the

00:06:31.500 sexual orientation of heterosexual were excluded from these protections. At this point, the EU began

00:06:39.480 harmonizing hate speech regulations, and countries like France and Germany strengthened their penalties.

00:06:46.400 Fortunately for Americans, they remained somewhat of an outlier due to the First Amendment. 0.96

00:06:51.340 However, they did impress that words are violence agenda on the school campuses and workplaces

00:06:57.120 under, you know, vague harassment laws. So from 2000 to the present, due to the internet and the

00:07:03.780 anonymity of it, the Jews felt too many people were able to notice things, and therefore even stricter

00:07:10.220 laws were required, especially in Europe. And when I say Jews, I know, you know, people are like,

00:07:14.940 it's the Jews, it's the Jews. But if you do look into, and I know it sounds kind of tongue in cheek and 0.95

00:07:19.180 stuff like that. But if you do look into it, you'll find that the people behind this are more than

00:07:25.880 likely of the Jewish, I guess you could say religion. So sorry, in the US, the historical driver of lack 0.90

00:07:34.860 of stronger laws, and the lack of them wanting to repeal the First Amendment, is that they still

00:07:41.320 believe strongly in individual liberty. The hate speech definition there is quite narrow, it actual

00:07:48.020 threats, or incitement of violence is really the barrier that you have to hit in the US. And there

00:07:54.940 really hasn't been a whole lot of precedents setting it. Overwhelmingly, the Supreme Court orders in

00:08:00.280 favour of free speech up until well, that's how it's been, who knows how it's going to change. In

00:08:05.360 comparison, though, to most other Western nations who have a very broad definition, such as insults and

00:08:11.320 mean words, can actually put you in jail. We've seen it, right? Many such cases. So why do so many

00:08:17.800 people feel that words are actual violence? Because this is something that has just, like, it blows me

00:08:25.520 away. And as somebody who has a daughter who is, you know, a liberal arts, fucking, you know, whatever, 0.98

00:08:31.420 all the things, right? This is her actual ideology. And it always has blown me away. Like, it's constant, 0.98

00:08:39.140 like, you know, I'm a terrible person, because I think this or because you said a mean thing, that means you

00:08:44.200 deserve to, you know, have the worst things happen to you. So I just, I guess, as a, I don't know, I guess,

00:08:51.660 because of when I grew up. I mean, I firmly believe that this is largely due to the indoctrination

00:08:57.460 factories, that is our current education system. The ideology that words are literal violence does

00:09:03.580 have other, you know, less relevant causes, though. Expanded definitions of harm was one of them, and

00:09:09.560 more specifically, psychological harm as violence. Modern psychology is actually more focused on

00:09:15.500 prescribing than curing. And again, this is something that I'm sure people are aware of. It's, you know,

00:09:21.520 in the benefit of drug companies and that to keep you unhealthy or sick. And that

00:09:27.280 includes mentally unhealthy as well. And the reality is that most of these psychological

00:09:32.220 problems can actually be eliminated with self care. And I mean, actual self care, not I'm going

00:09:37.520 to get a manicure, or I need to sit in my pajamas all day and, you know, eat ice cream like that,

00:09:43.480 you know, maybe there's a place for that once in a blue moon. But when I say self care, I mean,

00:09:48.240 like actual self care, like, you know, exercise, community, family, and, you know, even your diet

00:09:53.500 would, you know, it's beneficial. The American Psychological Association or Psychiatric Association,

00:09:59.220 they did a study in 2017, claiming that verbal harassment can cause stress, anxiety, and trauma,

00:10:05.820 which is akin to physical harm. Now, as someone who went to high school in Toronto, in the 90s,

00:10:13.640 that was just the quintessential high school experience for me. But again, what do I know,

00:10:18.960 right? I'm just a filthy racist. So now another one of these things, you know, when I was doing 1.00

00:10:24.860 the research they came that came up with is that there is now something called trauma informed

00:10:29.660 frameworks. Before I started on this, most of the advocates of trauma informed frameworks have never

00:10:36.880 actually experienced a trauma in their life, like an actual trauma. The rise in discourse on

00:10:43.860 university and activist spaces frame certain speech, and even microaggressions, which is also a bullshit 0.95

00:10:51.640 word as triggering and traumatizing. The reality is people who prescribe to this nonsense have never 0.59

00:10:58.760 been told no, and are very likely part of what I like to colloquially refer to as the participation

00:11:05.760 trophy generation. Critical theories like postmodernism and critical race theory argue that language shapes

00:11:13.000 reality for them because they never leave their echo chambers. Their reality is not the actual

00:11:19.060 reality that the rest of the people, you know, do or the normal people have or experience. Liberal arts

00:11:25.300 scholars like Judith Butler and Michael Foucault push the narrative that words perpetuate systemic

00:11:33.140 oppression, making it a form of violence. Of course, this is most common in academic settings,

00:11:38.420 like I just mentioned earlier. And then one of the other, you know, newer theories, or I guess you

00:11:44.300 could say frameworks that society tends to follow that is contributing to the whole words as violence

00:11:50.860 phenomena, is the harm principle and the expansion of the harm principle. Critics like Jonathan Haidt and

00:11:58.260 Craig Lukanoff wrote in their book, it's called The Coddling of the American Mind, that equating words with

00:12:05.080 violence infantilizes people. And I actually tend to agree with this a lot. Everything in current society

00:12:12.040 is structured to infantilize, demoralize, undermine resistance. I mean, they even cite studies showing

00:12:19.320 exposure to different viewpoints builds psychological strength, which is why pre hate speech laws, you could

00:12:26.420 have a best friend who held differing opinions, and you were still able to remain friends. There was many

00:12:32.420 cases I have seen and, you know, heard of, of people in the 50s, the 60s, you know, grant my

00:12:39.640 grandparents, stuff like that, who, you know, one was a whatever, a liberal, and one was a conservative, 0.74

00:12:44.060 and they were, you know, best fucking friends, like, it didn't matter, because people were mature. 0.87

00:12:49.880 They understood that words are just that words, and they were able to have, you know, civil discourse. 0.97

00:12:56.260 The thing with the hate speech laws and words as violence, it's a slippery slope, like all of these

00:13:02.980 tyrannical measures that they keep bringing in. This primarily applies to America, given that they

00:13:10.260 still have some speech protection, or pretty, actually pretty decent speech protection in

00:13:14.060 consideration to the rest of the Western world. But free speech advocates warn that labeling words as

00:13:19.140 violence risks censorship of unpopular opinions. And the US has consistently protected offensive speech,

00:13:26.260 rightfully acknowledging that there is a clear distinction between words and physical acts.

00:13:32.600 Ask a lefty liberal that and they would beg to differ. Subjectivity also leads to inconsistent

00:13:38.900 enforcement and application of the law. However, most intelligent people agree that defining hate

00:13:44.420 speech is too subjective to regulate fairly. In summary, with the Charlie Kirk cancel culture,

00:13:51.600 the lefties and commies and Jews are currently currently is simply karma playing out on a long enough 0.99

00:13:59.780 timeline, in my opinion, as all these things do.

postyX - September 16, 2025

Maple Syrup & Mayhem #9-Words as Violence

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