xgranade,
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Weird thought that I might have to explore at some point: why is the word "violence" used to refer both to actions taken in opposition to and in support of systems of oppression?

We have different words for "up" and "down" or "left" and "right" as well as "vertical" and "horizontal," but the word "violence" never seems to imply a direction.

felix,
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@xgranade Because that way we can erase the difference, obviously.

trochee,
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@xgranade

Somehow this makes me think of Samuel Delany's suggestion that the possessive is a structural problem in most widespread/imperial languages

(Why do we use the same "my" for "my hand", "my hammer", "my house", "my dog", "my child", "my spouse"?)

xgranade,
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@trochee Gah, very much so. I try to avoid it for just that reason, but it's so hard to completely eliminate.

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