How an Innocent Gaming Club is Now an Act of Violence

What started as a neighborhood dice game is now being called a violent act

A young woman in Brooklyn does what countless people in cities across America have always done: she posts online, hoping to start a small gaming club.

Ellen Christy, a 30-year-old midwife, wanted to gather women to play Bunco, a family dice game that’s been around since the 1800s. Think Yahtzee, not revolution.

But her simple invitation was greeted with rage.

Locals didn’t say, “No thanks.” They didn’t say, “That’s not my thing.” No—they accused her of colonialism. They branded her innocent attempt to roll the dice with neighbors as an act of violence.

That’s the new rule of our culture: offense is no longer a misunderstanding, or a disagreement, or even rudeness. Offense has been elevated into violence. And once something is labeled violence, the mob believes it deserves retaliation.

Deleting her original Facebook post? That, too, was “colonial violence.” Smiling in a photo with friends? “Genocide.”

One commenter even compared Christy’s Bunco Club to a murder mystery where Black women end up dead at white women’s parties.

You almost can’t parody this.

But the joke disappears the moment you realize what’s happening: ordinary human interactions are being redefined as acts of violent aggression.

And here’s the sinister part. If every offense is violence, then every retaliation—no matter how extreme—can be excused as self-defense. That’s where this ends.

We’ve already seen it.

When Charlie Kirk spoke the truth, countless voices on the Left accused him of “committing violence” with his words.

Think about that for a second: words as weapons, ideas as bloodshed. And what happened next? A radical, believing the propaganda, pulled a trigger. He convinced himself he was defending the world from “violence.”

That is not abstract theory. That is a body in a coffin.

The cultural reprogramming is complete: saying the wrong thing, playing the wrong game, or even smiling with the wrong friends is recast as violent assault.

And once you buy that lie, actual assault—even murder—can be rationalized as justice.

This isn’t just about one Bunco Club in Brooklyn. This is about a society being trained to see neighbors as enemies, speech as warfare, and disagreement as genocide.

Where does that road lead? Straight to chaos. Straight to blood in the streets.

The truth is painfully simple: when every offense is violence, every defense becomes war. And war is exactly what the architects of this language want.

They’re not out to protect anyone. They’re out to control everyone.

If dice rolling is colonialism, if Facebook posts are violence, and if words are murder, then America is already being primed for something far worse than Bunco night outrage.

It is being primed for actual violence—legitimized, rationalized, and celebrated.

We saw it with Charlie Kirk. We will see it again unless we stop pretending this is harmless “woke silliness.” It’s not silly. It’s lethal.

How Did the Lie Begin?

If you’re wondering how this toxic notion that “words are violence” ever got started, I’ve written a separate article tracing its roots—from obscure philosophy seminars to feminist legal theory, critical race activism, and finally a 2017 New York Times op-ed that brought it mainstream. You can read that history here.

Martin Mawyer is the President of Christian Action Network and host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast and author of When Evil Stops Hiding. Subscribe for more action alerts, cultural commentary, and real-world campaigns defending faith, family, and freedom.