"Words are violence" is an idea that those who wish to enslave you want you to believe. If it is true, then it means that we should punish and prosecute words just as we do physical violence. This is the pretense for killing our pesky freedom of speech. The funny thing is is that by removing our ability to settle disputes and to promote our best ideas with words, we ensure that physical violence is all but inevitable. We also ensure that our best ideas never get promoted. A repressed and collapsing society is easiest to enslave.