Yale Psychiatrist Calls Verbal Assault 'Just as Detrimental as Physical Violence'By Alex Parker
Apr 17, 2022
Hopefully, your life hasn’t been filled with violence. That would be, words aimed against you.
According to a Yale psychologist, those are one and the same.
MedPage Today published an article this month by Dr. Amanda Calhoun, who equates the damage of each:
If you claim to be sensitive to the potential effects of physical acts, you should also be sensitive to the potential effects of verbal acts. Sometimes, jokes are not entertaining to those targeted by them, and can be just as detrimental as physical violence.
Of course, viciously berating a child may well be more hurtful than a thump on the knuckle. But I’d assume that’s not what the doctor means. Presumably, she believes language and violence of the same degree are similarly destructive.
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Yet, this is the world in which we live — one that has thoroughly thrown out the old adage about only sticks and stones breaking bones. These days, as we’re increasingly advised, mere mouth-sounds amount to violence.
Whatever the impetus for such an idea, it appears to serve as a guaranteed path to restriction of speech.
See:
Student Paper Will Promote Diversity by Preventing It as Free Speech Is Swapped for ‘Safety’
Booksellers Association CEO Apologizes for the ‘Violence’ of Accidentally Promoting a Conservative Book
University Schools Students on the Importance of Free Speech — and Reporting People Who Use It
At least the woke aren’t speciesists:
Legal Journal Publishes Plea for Hate Speech Laws Protecting Animals
Woke in the Water: Shark Advocates Call for an End to the Word ‘Attacks’ in Favor of ‘Interactions’
Still, it seems to me much of America has lost a sense of the high stakes. As I’ve previously posed:
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Source:
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2022/04/17/yale-psychiatrist-calls-verbal-assault-just-as-detrimental-as-physical-violence-n551754
