Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Gage Skidmore, reproduced under a Creative Commons license)
Mass marketed hate speech is not “mere speech” by an individual. It is actually physical in nature because all ideas are physically constituted by neural circuitry in our brains. When you are repeatedly told by those protected by the President and his government that you are a lesser being and are hated, it can have a crippling effect, physically, on your brain, mind, and heart.
— George Lakoff: What is hate speech?
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