I agree don’t trivialize violence. Sending an email or txt to asking for some talking points is not violent.

I don’t think anyone reasonably thinks that’s what the poster was saying. Presumably the violence is in creating the type of work environment where you are so oppressed or manipulated that you feel immense pressure to reply in that situation.

If you’re checking your work email and replying to it during labour, I somehow doubt you feel like you were being “asked” and respected as a human being.

But I don’t know the full story from all parties, and I get the feeling you don’t either. I wasn’t judging this particular case in my previous reply, merely pointing out that violence can take many forms and we shouldn’t narrow our thinking of what it means to do harm.

Yes, the Newspeak dictionaries.

Are the Oxford and Collins dictionaries newspeak now? That’s a conspiracy theory I hadn’t heard before.