This post redefines 'political violence' to encompass policy positions and systemic inequities—deadnaming, vaccine hesitancy, labor practices, voting restrictions, airport security, and school funding models. The rhetorical move collapses a meaningful distinction: actual violence (assassination attempts, shootings at political events, which major outlets confirm are currently escalating) differs fundamentally from policy disagreements or structural inequality, even when those policies cause real harm. The framing creates false equivalence between physical violence and political positions, which obscures rather than clarifies the escalation in actual attacks on politicians that prompted the original 'political violence' discussion.