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> There a lot of people who rail against fascism in a hateful way and if you replaced the word fascism with something else other people would say “that person t
by samtheDamned 1y ago
> There a lot of people who rail against fascism in a hateful way and if you replaced the word fascism with something else other people would say “that person talks like a fascist”.
If you change the words in someone's sentence, the sentence changes it's meaning. Nothing is new there. Regardless, to your point I would like to bring up the paradox of tolerance[1]
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
- yorwba 1y agoIn European countries that criminalize hate speech, changing the targeted group doesn't make it less illegal. Left-wing extremists attacking right-wing extremists are most definitely prosecuted. Turns out that not tolerating the intolerant doesn't mean you have to get violent.