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Clearly you haven't been exposed to much of the underbelly of the internet. Words can translate to physical harm and actions in the real world, and do regularly

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I grew up on the internet, I doubt there's any level of textual depravity I haven't seen.

This sounds like a disingenuous argument to actually try to argue for more racism. Every kid in the world has been called stupid by a classmate and knows that words aren't meaningless.

Who said that words are meaningless?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620564

>> if words had no power, we wouldn’t fight so hard to protect them from government abuse.

>People fight hard for all kinds of nonsense.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsense

I think you've failed to understand the words in question, rather than them being meaningless

I think you're a troll who should be banned from this site for wasting everyone's time.

Hm, can't really have engaging discussions with people who just don't understand what's being said. Can't force the information into their brains so we can do that either. Not sure which action you'd like me to take to improve this situation, then.

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