LZ Granderson: How is it that words become the valent of physical violence and a threat to my safety? LZ: It touches back to the notions of safety, ta, we have to day and safe spaces. He says when people walk out saying i am no longer safe if i'm a black person at the new york times because of an oped by senator cotton they are making themselves unsafe. LZ: This kind of warping of language has is both cause and effect. Is the truth something that we identify as objectively independent of us, existing independently of us?"