Wiki - The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

  • abraxas@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Actually, I think it’s that a lot of people are aware of the Paradox of Tolerance as a fairly well-discuss philosophical point, and overhumanizing a group defined by its desire to extinguish an ethnicity is not the most constructive rebuttal to it.

    It’s not even Godwinizing. Karl Popper coined the Paradox of Tolerance in full knowledge of Nazi atrocities.

    I didn’t downvote him, but I’m thinking that’s why many people did.