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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by aninhumer on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:19AM (#14927592)
>"Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me". This old cliche is underappreciated in our day and age.

Because it's false. Words can and do hurt people, and it's not necessarily a result of their choices.

You can argue that this harm is less severe, or that preventing it isn't worth limiting speech, but to suggest it doesn't exist is just myopic.

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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by cookiecaper on Friday August 04, 2017 @12:03PM (#14929684)
To clarify, I am not saying that words cannot be hurtful. I am saying that they are not equivalent to physical assault, as someone else in the thread asserted. Physical assault presents a much more immediate personal danger, and deserves to be distinguished from verbal exchange.
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