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Something something paradox of tolerance (midwest.social)

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[-] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Philosopher Karl Popper described the paradox of tolerance as the seemingly counterintuitive idea that “in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.” Essentially, if a so-called tolerant society permits the existence of intolerant philosophies, it is no longer tolerant.

TL;DR punch a nazi

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