> it's really, really a bad idea to bring up the paradox of tolerance because they might just adopt it and decide you're the intolerant ones that don't have to

> it's really, really a bad idea to bring up the paradox of tolerance because they might just adopt it and decide you're the intolerant ones that don't have to be tolerated. If the use of a meta-position like this is contingent on a particular set of people being in charge and using it, that means that it wasn't a good meta-position to begin with. Either you believe that we shouldn't tolerate "intolerant" people (and accept that being turned against you when you're not in power), or you don't. Only believing in it (or supporting it) when you have the power to enforce it on your political opponents is hypocritical and deeply evil.