• @baines@lemmy.cafe
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    78 hours ago

    paradox of tolerance

    you can only achieve a fair and civil society by removing those unwilling to keep the social contract

    • @fine_sandy_bottom
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      -34 hours ago

      Everyone loves invoking the paradox of tolerance because it makes you sound smart and progressive.

      Paradoxically, it’s most often used as an excuse to be intolerant of some group that you have arbitrarily branded as intolerant.

      I hereby pronounce you intolerant, thereby according to the docterine of the paradox of tolerance you are forthwith stripped of your right to be tolerated.

      As always, the problem is nuanced and you need to consider carefully the extent to which you’re willing to tolerate what level of intolerance under what circumstances.

      • @baines@lemmy.cafe
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        12 hours ago

        good job ignoring the part about the social contract

        I’m not talking about 80s republicans here. John McCain deserves civility, fucking nazis and proud boys don’t

      • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        44 hours ago

        Paradoxically, it’s most often used as an excuse to be intolerant of some group that you have arbitrarily branded as intolerant.

        This just isn’t a thing.

        • @fine_sandy_bottom
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          144 minutes ago

          Of course it is.

          That’s exactly how it’s being used here.

          It’s just that you don’t want to tolerate the people this comment is targeting.