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You sound very intolerant of said "intolerance".
by toomim 6y ago
You sound very intolerant of said "intolerance".
- krastanov 6y agoI am not certain whether you are making a very erudite joke or trolling, but either way, the "Paradox of Intolerance" might an interesting read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Being "intolerant to intolerance" is a fairly well accepted idea in societies that value personal freedoms.
- hglp 6y agoPopper would have been disgusted by the treatment of RMS and cancel culture in general. He'd also have been disgusted by being used in a propagandistic manner.
- blp100 6y agoPopper is abused by the woke. No one who actually read philosophy believes that Popper is in any way an apologist for the woke movement.
- toomim 6y agoI'm aware of the paradox, and it's a wonderful idea! It still looks to me that in this case, it's the people calling RMS intolerant that are the intolerant ones. On the contrary, I think RMS actually tolerates a whole lot. He clearly has different views than others on a variety of topics, yet he doesn't let it affect his technical decisions. He's been attacked viciously in the media, but he's tolerated it and is coming back to the FSF. An intolerant person would disappear. Consider all the people on the board of the FSF with opposite political views than his, that he tolerates on a day-to-day basis. An "intolerant homophobe/transphobe" would not tolerate having homosexuals/transexuals on the board, for instance.
- krastanov 6y agoAh, yes, I am mostly on board with the specifics of what you said in this message, even if I disagree with some of the generalizations. The original one lacked too much context for me to understand it.