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>Ah, that's the crux: racism and misogyny are terrible enough that if you hate it, you must be correct. As is required to maintain what I would call a "democra
by enord 9y ago
>Ah, that's the crux: racism and misogyny are terrible enough that if you hate it, you must be correct.
As is required to maintain what I would call a "democracy" with "individual rights". We have to be vehemently intolerant of intolerance and marginalization (in general), and this is more important than free speech. Free speech is an artefact of-, not a requirement for democracy. Tolerance is required, however. Some people get this backwards, usually the kind of people who can't keep their foot out of their mouth.
- Danihan 9y ago>Free speech is an artefact of-, not a requirement for democracy. Tolerance is required, however. That seems like a pretty grand statement to make offhand and pretend like it's objective. Free speech is in the very first amendment. #1. Yet you feel so comfortable hand-waving it away. Freedom of Association implies just the opposite of your argument, that intolerence is specifically protected.
- Cryptid 9y ago"Is the Second Amendment the Second Most Important?" - "The order of that list, however, still reflects Madison’s view: They come in the same order as the sections of the Constitution that they would have modified." http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/12/order_of_bill_of_rights_is_second_amendment_the_second_most_important.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
- ABCLAW 9y agoThe first amendment did not create democracy. It was enacted in one. That's the point being made.
- Danihan 9y agoThe colonists were from and used to monarchy. Democracy was nearly a foreign concept to them and it very gradually evolved in the US after the Bill of Rights passed. "The Founding Fathers rejected 'democracy' as defined by the Greeks, preferring instead 'a natural aristocracy', whereby only the landed gentry were entitled to a place in Congress."
- tscs37 9y agoThe first amendment only exists in the US and only started existing well after democracy was invented.
- Danihan 9y agoThe colonists were from and used to monarchy. Democracy was nearly a foreign concept to them and it very gradually evolved in the US after the Bill of Rights passed. "The Founding Fathers rejected 'democracy' as defined by the Greeks, preferring instead 'a natural aristocracy', whereby only the landed gentry were entitled to a place in Congress."
- tscs37 9y agoIn what way does this respond to my comment? I asserted that America's amendment does not exist in other legislations and that democracy has been far older than america. None of which are relevant in your comment.
- conanbatt 9y agoAnd who defines who is intolerant in this democracy of yours.
- 52-6F-62 9y agoConsensus, or consensus of representatives.
- conanbatt 9y agoIntolerants can't have consensus?
- 52-6F-62 9y agoThey have before. The results have been noted. Germany was one place where intolerant groups rose to prominence through eventual consensus. It just happens that on these little internet message boards, the consensus shifts in another favour, and the same seems to be [mainly] true in North American societies, amongst others.
- conanbatt 9y agoIf there is no principle behind the desire to oppress, it is just an application of violence. You won't get consensus out of me for that.
- wolco 9y agoBeing intolerant of ideas makes you intolerant even if you classify those ideas as good or bad. Being intolerant isn't always a bad thing either. Everything is not black or white. Move the pieces around and the minority become the majority in different contexts.
- enord 9y agoI don't have time to socratically convince you of it, so i'll just spell it out: you can't tolerate intolerance of groups, persons or behaviors (that don't infringe on other people's liberty) in a _democracy_ because it will undermine the legitimacy and thus participation of said group or person within the democracy itself. I realize that "intolerance of intolerance" is paradoxical in nature, but common sense and a little charity in interpretation goes a long way.