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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never seen anything of any substance in the (so-called) "Paradox Of Tolerance."

"Tolerance" is of no use to me or anyone else - we don't owe people "tolerance," we owe each other mutual respect. If you are dead-set on proving yourself unwilling of giving mutual respect (such as, for instance, fascists or capitalists) you disqualify yourself from that paradigm - zero "paradoxes" required.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You just used different words to describe exactly the same thing as the OP.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

No, actually. They rephrased it in a way that results in the opposite meaning. First they lowered the stakes from "we will not tolerate you in our society" to "mutual respect" which is very weak and vague language. Mutual respect is something fascists love both giving and receiving. Superficial civility is how they play the game. While they gain influence in a government they use police power to protect themselves from and later actively suppress protestors and activists while extolling the virtues of civility and the 'marketplace of ideas'.

What @[email protected] said is exactly what I would expect a fascist would.