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To preserve a tolerant society, you need to be intolerant of intolerance. And yes, that's a paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://
by barrkel 8y ago
To preserve a tolerant society, you need to be intolerant of intolerance. And yes, that's a paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Germany obviously has had a troubled past in this area. Another concept that may be useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streitbare_Demokratie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streitbare_Demokratie
- jhayward 8y ago> To preserve a tolerant society, you need to be intolerant of intolerance Precisely. This should be the beginning and end of every conversation about policy regarding the weaponized social media of today.
- quotemstr 8y agoThe paradox of tolerance is based on equivocation between tolerance of speech and tolerance of action. Like most paradoxes, it disappears once you're precise in your wording. Jones, whatever you think of him, is not an existential threat to society, and using the "paradox of tolerance" to censor him is intellectual cowardice. I'm really sick of the so-called paradox of tolerance being used as a justification for arbitrary political censorship.