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          It’s called the paradox of tolerance. Tolerating intolerance is the paradox. So it says you can’t tolerate intolerance.

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              No it doesn’t. This argument works only if you assume that “intolerance” is something that can be defined as “anyone against anything I’m doing”.

              If fascists were able to say “they’re being oppressive of my desire to exclude them from our society” then that’s not a flaw in the paradox but their reasoning abilities. Any philosophy is irrelevant then.

              The argument boils down to “it’s impossible to know if the opposing side is truly being intolerant.” You say it is impossible. I say it isn’t.

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                  The deep divisiveness comes from the shitty ideas that should have been shunned long ago and instead were left to fester.

                  You don’t care about instances loke Exploding Heads or their awful ideas because you’re unaffected by them so you can hold these lofty perfect ideals instead of facing the reality of the situation.

                  Opposing and shunning hate speech is not fascism and your argument depends on pretending to be unable to see the difference between hate and disagreement.

                  Allow me to illucidate the simplicity of this in reality:

                  • Economic policy: Disagreement
                  • Minstrel show images: Hate speech
                  • Energy policy: Disagreement
                  • Saying men and straight people should have less rights than women and gays: Hate speech