Yes. That's literally what tolerance is. The only "paradox" is hypocrisy masquerading as ethics. Reframing tolerance of intolerance as a "problem" is just engin

Yes. That's literally what tolerance is. The only "paradox" is hypocrisy masquerading as ethics. Reframing tolerance of intolerance as a "problem" is just engineered rhetoric. Heresy's track record does not lend itself to the idea that silencing views we disagree with is a practice worth continuing. After the Church, only dictators have ever insist on the necessity of censorship. The anti-speech demographic's interests neatly align with the most intolerant, most-abusive oppressors throughout history. Catholics and Hitler-- that's the company you keep when you suggest speech needs limits. News flash: I don't have to like what you have to say. I'm expected to fucking deal with it. You can do it too. The "words are violence" crowd sure throw a lot of words around, themselves, while arguing that others should not have the same right. Everything everyone else has to say is "hate speech!" How far the goalposts have moved from burning crosses, nooses and death threats. Galileo was a heretic. Martin Luther was a heretic. That's the company the rest of us keep. Haters, the lot of us.