it's our violence. that's really true and you believe that then violence is an appropriate response to words because violence is an appropriate response to vio violence. we did that for most of our human history going to mid- evil times way more recently said something bad about your mom say have a shoot out? it's a more modern idea we respond to words with words. i do not know how people act like their progressive for having this words mentality it's a neanderthal mentality if anything pretty also write in my book when he signed but selective outrage, what it really is is performative outrage in many cases. you want to show off how much you care so people think you are a good person. social media it really rewards separate studies that have been done on a show emotional words and tweets for example lead to more retweets. at the same time if you're on the screen not facing a human, you do not have to confront the fact the person you're talking too or about is a human.