Violence includes psychic, emotional, and conceptual harm, not only physical injury

Evidence

Prevailing conceptions of violence tend to be predicated primarily on its physicality, on producing physical injury through force. Even principal dictionary definitions privilege this sense, reducing to “weakened” and so dependent status meanings that are not or not so directly physical in their force. But as the preceding remarks suggest, this is too constrictive. For there is, at the very least, violence that is psychic, emotional, indeed conceptual. The notion of “violating” sensibilities, of profaning or defiling, bears witness to this latter sense. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1819

Categorization

• DEFINE: Expands the definition of violence beyond physical injury to include violations of sensibility.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1819
• XREF: connects to: Objectifying thought commits the mental violence that later becomes physical violence — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 153