Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need.

There's so much handwringing about whether violence is acceptable that ignores the fact that violence is utterly normalized - normalized one way only. If violence was unacceptable, Palestine would be free, almost all guns would be outlawed, and Trump wouldn't be president. Violence is daily.

there is no magical reality where we get to censor "only" fictional works that are "truly" obscene. there is no one single standard and everyone has their own personal line. either you tolerate all of it or you accept that there can be none of it. any other position is a fantasy