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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by longtimegoogler on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:16PM (#31163599)
Verbal abuse can be as damaging to people as physical violence.

If you go up to someone and call them a slur, then you have committed verbal assault:

"the use of offensive language directed at a person, where such language is likely to provoke a reasonable person to physical violence."

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by legalcorrection on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:10AM (#31164166)
Chaplinsky, the case you quote, has not been used to uphold a conviction in many many decades. The doctrine is dead in practice.

Also, that has nothing to do with making that response with physical violence legal. You can still only use violence when you are defending yourself against physical injury. Sure, provocation might be mitigating, or get you to a lower level of assault or murder (as the case may be), but it’s not a full defense.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by PixyMisa on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:08AM (#31164155)
> Verbal abuse can be as damaging to people as physical violence.

No it can't.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by longtimegoogler on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @11:30AM (#31168725)
Yes it can.
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