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That's an interesting point, however I disagree it's tolerance of one group that makes someone intolerant of another group. In other words, I don't think being
by jmeyer2k 8y ago
That's an interesting point, however I disagree it's tolerance of one group that makes someone intolerant of another group. In other words, I don't think being tolerant of black people means I must be intolerant of white people.
Karl Popper wrote about this idea called the paradox of tolerance [0] asking if you should be tolerant of intolerance.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
- kronin 8y ago"tolerant of intolerance"... Interesting concept. Who defines the intolerance?
- badrabbit 8y agoIntolerance of anti-black people makes you intolerant,not tolerance of black people. That intolerance would be fine(I certainly don't tolerate anti-black people in my personal life) but I would want to make every effort to be professional and respectful towards a skinhead at work.
- michaelmrose 8y agoI would collaborate with my coworkers to get him fired. In the end after a few dozen unrelated complaints about random different things their supervisor would be thinking about getting rid of them.
- sosense 8y agoSame goes for a Trump supporter too?
- michaelmrose 8y agoNo I work with trump supporters we just don't talk politics and many are just deeply misguided not terrible people.
- Bendingo 8y agoI presume you would only complain about the workplace behaviour of this skinhead. If your target skinhead kept all his skinhead behaviour out of the workplace, and only displayed respect and tolerance to his colleagues, would you still organise to get him fired?
- michaelmrose 8y agoTo be clear skinhead is sort of ambiguous. I'm reading neonazi and I think you meant neonazi but people do actually use the term to mean other things it seems. If you mean neonazi I would for no reason I can imagine tolerate them. Would you tolerate someone who hated and wanted to subjugate or murder some portion of your loved ones because they were polite at work so they could earn a living?
- ndespres 8y agoI do not intend to have a Philosophy 101-level debate here, but would like to say that some things are not morally ambiguous. It is fine and good to be disrespectful towards skinheads at work, on the bus, or anywhere else. It is not fine or good to be respectful towards skinheads. Someone who wishes violence against a class of people based on their race does not have a place in a well-functioning society for these beliefs to be openly tolerated and accepted.
- int_19h 8y agoPopper was wrong - or, perhaps, not specific enough. The paradox only arises when you tolerate intolerant actions. But it does not arise at all if you tolerate intolerant opinions - which is the relevant part in this particular case.
- Bendingo 8y agoYes I agree. This is a much better solution.