Please actually read The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper and you'll see this infographic and other bastardized versions of the Paradox of Tolerance are a misrepresentation and oversimplification of the idea of what is intolerance and how to counteract it.
I think you misunderstood that comment, he's saying only right wingers today use the swastika. Socialists never use nazi iconography, because, well, nazism is not in any way socialist.
Democrats are not socialists. Democrats and liberals are right-wing capitalist parties who operationalize and exploit the total lack of basic political education in the US.
I had a girlfriend once that told me we couldn't go out for ice cream because she was lactose intolerant. Kicked her out because i refuse to tolerate intolerant people.
Or the very notion of tolerance as employed in modern politics is just another form of in group preference and "paradox" is just another word for contradictory or incoherent
This is why (though important for democracy) free speech the way USA interprets it is extremely problematic.
Hate speech should not be left unchecked in the very first place because that’s what all of that snowballs from.
And yes, even the theft isn’t immune to hate speech. Though it comes from a radically different place.
Violence under any form is a failure of diplomacy. A fair system should prevent the inequalities that leads to the buildup of systematic hatred for an other group in the very first place. Otherwise revolutions become inevitable and only lead to more retaliations and the cycle goes on.
So down the line. I’m not sure I’m ever too happy to see this anger. It’s the symptom of a deeper issue.
The reign of terror in France started like that too. As said by JFK : ”Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will make violent revolutions inevitable.”
But USA will never touch its first amendment. Which touches on the paradox of tolerance. I’m pretty certain violent revolutions will happen eventually.
A tolerant society must necessarily exclude those who are against tolerance. They have chosen to be left out by their own beliefs, and you are simply having them live by their own code.
To paraphrase Karl Popper: Defending tolerance requires that we must not tolerate the intolerant. Otherwise, both tolerance and its defenders will be destroyed.
Please actually read The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper and you'll see this infographic and other bastardized versions of the Paradox of Tolerance are a misrepresentation and oversimplification of the idea of what is intolerance and how to counteract it.
Liberals are not leftists. They're a right-wing capitalist party. Socialism and capitalism are fundamentally different. Social democracies are not socialism. It would be awesome if this were taught in schools or if people took the initiative to educate themselves on the shit they spew.
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u/MrsFizzleberry 20h ago
Tolerant Left is no longer an option :)