• cmhe@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If you want a tolerant society, you cannot tolerate the intolerant.

      If you want democracy, you must suppress anti-democratic ideas.

      You have to fight for want you believe in, and not let antithetical ideas fester and subvert yours, just because they exploit your tolerance and use the space you give them to fight it.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, but your methodology for determining what is an anti-democratic idea should be really tight, before you raid/arrest people.

        No one wants murders in their society, but showing that they did that action is more important than stating that an action is wrong/anti-democratic/immoral etc.

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            1 year ago

            In this case if they have evidence, they should be investigated as is being done.

            My critique is on the general sense of tolerance/intolerance as that can be vague, although unjustified incitement of violence or violent action is a good place to draw a line. However what is a call to violence can be tricky to parse sometimes.

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        1 year ago

        If you want a tolerant society, you cannot tolerate the intolerant

        That doesn’t mean silencing anyone who utters “wrongspeak,” but authoritarians like you are pushing precisely that. “We shall decide who the intolerant are and they shall be banned from our tolerant society.” I would much rather live in a world where I had to listen to ignorant views like yours than be “protected” from them but never forced to figure out for myself why I disagree. Bigotry flourishes in darkness; the solution is to bring it out into the light.