postyX - September 16, 2025
Maple Syrup & Mayhem #9-Words as Violence
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Summary
On the heels of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the right-wing conspiracy theories and mass firings in the wake of the shooting, I talk about the history of hate speech, and the role of words as actual violence. I also talk about when we started shifting from words being just words to words being actual violence, and why we should be worried about what we say.
Transcript
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Well, the Toronto District School Board is investigating after a teacher reportedly showed
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part of the video of Kirk's assassination to some young students. The school board has not
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released the name of the teacher, only that they were a staff member at the Corvette Junior Public
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School. I thought I'd do a quick check-in after yesterday and all of the drama. I want to
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reiterate that it is not wrong or unethical or unkind to laugh at the misfortunes of terrible
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people that Charlie Kirk incited violence. That's what he did.
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So, I'm recording now. Would you like to give your name? No. Okay. Why are you here protesting
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at the Charlie Kirk vigil today? I actually don't want to give an interview. You don't
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want to do an interview? This man is worse than the death of children and said that any deaths
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of gun violence are worth it for the Second Amendment. What else do I need to say? I don't
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Charlie Kirk got shot and he's dead. Ha ha ha ha. Finally, finally, somebody with a gun,
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which is almost everybody in the fucking states, grew a pair and fucking went and shot somebody
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on the right side. Thank you. Can we keep this up, please?
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I think that this push for mass firings could become quite significant and it already, already
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is. I mean, compared to the aftermath of January 6th, this does seem to be turning into a very
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aggressive attempt to purge not just, you know, government officials or in the Hexeth example
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in the Defense Department, but also specifically people who work in education, who work in health
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care, who work in government. Those are the fields that a lot of these right wing figures
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have been mentioning over and over again when talking about how just random internet users
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have responded to this shooting. 24 hours later.
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So I received information that I've been doxxed on X, so I'm going to have to step away for a little
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bit and the AFP have been contacted and also the eSafety Commission as well have been contacted
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because there's been a large number of threats coming through. And the irony of this situation
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that all I did was say some words that offended some people and now people have decided to take
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that into the real world and start, you know, threatening and harassing and abusing people
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out in the real world based on their inability to manage their emotions.
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What the fuck are you supposed to do when you get fired? You just take it? You just take it like a man?
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I'm unemployed. What am I supposed to do now, dude? I go home and goom? Like, guys, what do I do?
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I woke up, I told him I took the ship of the 22nd ship of yesterday, what the fuck?
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What the fuck, y'all? I thought y'all would think I could be fired when y'all did it!
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So, on the heels of the whole Charlie Kirk assassination and inevitable cancelling of the left,
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I thought I would talk about the whole words as violence because this is where, this is what this is,
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like, where it's coming from. This is initially, you know, what started this whole thing is
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the fact that many, you know, mostly liberals, feel that words are actual violence.
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So, I wanted to look into the history and where that came from and when did we shift
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from words being just words to words being actual violence.
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We transitioned to a societal shift regarding hate speech mid-20th century, post-World War II,
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although it did gain momentum from the 60s onward, it gained actually more momentum,
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but it did actually come out of the results of World War II. It was peddled as efforts to combat
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discrimination and promote human rights. However, the elephant that still remains in the room is
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what humans deserve those rights. So, when they say human rights, do they mean, you know, humans from
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that? Like, I guess I should say when they say human rights, they kind of are using that term to make
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people feel bad, but it really should be citizen rights, the citizens of that country, right? That's
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where it really, you know, should be, but they say human rights. It coincided with the shifts in
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immigration policies, which is obviously another video, and there's many more people more educated
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on that that can actually, you know, give a more in-depth look at that. But it did start with the
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whole, you know, shift in immigration policies and diversity that, you know, we've all come to
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enjoy. You know, in my opinion, the Jews really wanted to punish the Aryans for the attempts to
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remove them from Germany. But I digress. The key milestones of this was 1940 to 1950, laws emerged in
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Europe, particularly Germany, to prevent the resurgence of the National Socialist ideology.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, it set the tone and it influenced the later laws.
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Then we get to the 1960s and the 70s, where the civil rights movement in the US, Canada, Europe
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pushed for laws to protect against racial and ethnic discrimination. Canada's criminal code added
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hate propaganda provisions in 1970, and the UK's Race Relations Act of 1965, criminalized incitement
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to racial hatred. Now, what I noticed while I was doing this research is that you, the laws are
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purposely vague, so as to be as far reaching as possible. What does incitement to racial hatred even
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mean? After the Jews were successful in pushing through these laws that are really nothing more than
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censorship and attacks on free thought. They, in typical Jew fashion, pushed for even more
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restrictions. And then we got into the 80s and 90s, where this is where, you know, they really, well,
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this is where they really started to get some clout in this area and get some leverage. So laws expanded
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to cover more groups, a whittled down more specific focus, religion and sexual orientation, who, if you are
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a noticer like me, you'll notice, or you'll realize rather, that the religion of Christianity and the
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sexual orientation of heterosexual were excluded from these protections. At this point, the EU began
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harmonizing hate speech regulations, and countries like France and Germany strengthened their penalties.
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Fortunately for Americans, they remained somewhat of an outlier due to the First Amendment.
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However, they did impress that words are violence agenda on the school campuses and workplaces
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under, you know, vague harassment laws. So from 2000 to the present, due to the internet and the
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anonymity of it, the Jews felt too many people were able to notice things, and therefore even stricter
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laws were required, especially in Europe. And when I say Jews, I know, you know, people are like,
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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
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stuff like that. But if you do look into it, you'll find that the people behind this are more than
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likely of the Jewish, I guess you could say religion. So sorry, in the US, the historical driver of lack
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of stronger laws, and the lack of them wanting to repeal the First Amendment, is that they still
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believe strongly in individual liberty. The hate speech definition there is quite narrow, it actual
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threats, or incitement of violence is really the barrier that you have to hit in the US. And there
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really hasn't been a whole lot of precedents setting it. Overwhelmingly, the Supreme Court orders in
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favour of free speech up until well, that's how it's been, who knows how it's going to change. In
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comparison, though, to most other Western nations who have a very broad definition, such as insults and
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mean words, can actually put you in jail. We've seen it, right? Many such cases. So why do so many
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people feel that words are actual violence? Because this is something that has just, like, it blows me
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away. And as somebody who has a daughter who is, you know, a liberal arts, fucking, you know, whatever,
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all the things, right? This is her actual ideology. And it always has blown me away. Like, it's constant,
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like, you know, I'm a terrible person, because I think this or because you said a mean thing, that means you
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deserve to, you know, have the worst things happen to you. So I just, I guess, as a, I don't know, I guess,
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because of when I grew up. I mean, I firmly believe that this is largely due to the indoctrination
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factories, that is our current education system. The ideology that words are literal violence does
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have other, you know, less relevant causes, though. Expanded definitions of harm was one of them, and
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more specifically, psychological harm as violence. Modern psychology is actually more focused on
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prescribing than curing. And again, this is something that I'm sure people are aware of. It's, you know,
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in the benefit of drug companies and that to keep you unhealthy or sick. And that
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includes mentally unhealthy as well. And the reality is that most of these psychological
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problems can actually be eliminated with self care. And I mean, actual self care, not I'm going
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to get a manicure, or I need to sit in my pajamas all day and, you know, eat ice cream like that,
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you know, maybe there's a place for that once in a blue moon. But when I say self care, I mean,
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like actual self care, like, you know, exercise, community, family, and, you know, even your diet
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would, you know, it's beneficial. The American Psychological Association or Psychiatric Association,
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they did a study in 2017, claiming that verbal harassment can cause stress, anxiety, and trauma,
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which is akin to physical harm. Now, as someone who went to high school in Toronto, in the 90s,
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that was just the quintessential high school experience for me. But again, what do I know,
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right? I'm just a filthy racist. So now another one of these things, you know, when I was doing
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the research they came that came up with is that there is now something called trauma informed
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frameworks. Before I started on this, most of the advocates of trauma informed frameworks have never
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actually experienced a trauma in their life, like an actual trauma. The rise in discourse on
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university and activist spaces frame certain speech, and even microaggressions, which is also a bullshit
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word as triggering and traumatizing. The reality is people who prescribe to this nonsense have never
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been told no, and are very likely part of what I like to colloquially refer to as the participation
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trophy generation. Critical theories like postmodernism and critical race theory argue that language shapes
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reality for them because they never leave their echo chambers. Their reality is not the actual
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reality that the rest of the people, you know, do or the normal people have or experience. Liberal arts
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scholars like Judith Butler and Michael Foucault push the narrative that words perpetuate systemic
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oppression, making it a form of violence. Of course, this is most common in academic settings,
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like I just mentioned earlier. And then one of the other, you know, newer theories, or I guess you
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could say frameworks that society tends to follow that is contributing to the whole words as violence
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phenomena, is the harm principle and the expansion of the harm principle. Critics like Jonathan Haidt and
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Craig Lukanoff wrote in their book, it's called The Coddling of the American Mind, that equating words with
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violence infantilizes people. And I actually tend to agree with this a lot. Everything in current society
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is structured to infantilize, demoralize, undermine resistance. I mean, they even cite studies showing
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exposure to different viewpoints builds psychological strength, which is why pre hate speech laws, you could
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have a best friend who held differing opinions, and you were still able to remain friends. There was many
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cases I have seen and, you know, heard of, of people in the 50s, the 60s, you know, grant my
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grandparents, stuff like that, who, you know, one was a whatever, a liberal, and one was a conservative,
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and they were, you know, best fucking friends, like, it didn't matter, because people were mature.
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They understood that words are just that words, and they were able to have, you know, civil discourse.
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The thing with the hate speech laws and words as violence, it's a slippery slope, like all of these
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tyrannical measures that they keep bringing in. This primarily applies to America, given that they
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still have some speech protection, or pretty, actually pretty decent speech protection in
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consideration to the rest of the Western world. But free speech advocates warn that labeling words as
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violence risks censorship of unpopular opinions. And the US has consistently protected offensive speech,
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rightfully acknowledging that there is a clear distinction between words and physical acts.
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Ask a lefty liberal that and they would beg to differ. Subjectivity also leads to inconsistent
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enforcement and application of the law. However, most intelligent people agree that defining hate
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speech is too subjective to regulate fairly. In summary, with the Charlie Kirk cancel culture,
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the lefties and commies and Jews are currently currently is simply karma playing out on a long enough
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timeline, in my opinion, as all these things do.