"The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance. This paradox was articulated by philosopher Karl Popper in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945),[1] where he argued that a truly tolerant society must retain the right to deny tolerance to those who promote intolerance. Popper posited that if intolerant ideologies are allowed unchecked expression, they could exploit open society values to erode or destroy tolerance itself through authoritarian or oppressive practices."
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People like to pretend that everything is simple. That every problem has a straight forward, easy solution. That the paradox of tolerance is not real, because you could simply look at it a bit differently and it magically disappears, or something. People claim a soothing claim that all you need to do to make the paradox go away is to think of it as a "social contract". If you are not willing to tolerate, you are not tolerated. But I happened to live in Israel...
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People like to pretend that everything is simple. That every problem has a straight forward, easy solution. That the paradox of tolerance is not real, because you could simply look at it a bit differently and it magically disappears, or something. People claim a soothing claim that all you need to do to make the paradox go away is to think of it as a "social con...
Read: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_paradox_of_tolerance_is_real__look_at_israel
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People like to pretend that everything is simple. That every problem has a straight forward, easy solution. That the paradox of tolerance is not real, because you could simply look at it a bit differently and it magically disappears, or something. People claim a soothing claim that all you need to do to make the paradox go away is to think of it as a "social contract". If you are not willing to tolerate, you are not tolerated. But I happened to live in Israel...
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Especially now, it’s essential to remember the #ParadoxOfTolerance by the philosopher Karl Popper
SHOULD A TOLERANT SOCIETY TOLERATE INTELORANCE? THE ANSWER IS NO. IT'S A PARADOX, BUT UNLIMITED TOLERANCE CAN LEAD TO THE EXTINCTION OF TOLERANCE. WHEN WE EXTEND TOLERANCE TO THOSE WHO ARE OPENLY INTOLERANT...THE TOLERANT ONES END UP BEING DESTROYED. ANY MOVEMENT THAT PREACHES INTOLERANCE AND
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Today, when sampling `fortune -o` I was surprised to discover the following quote was apparently labeled as "offensive" (note: I removed line breaks and tabs):
> I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.
> -- John F. Kennedy
I am now in a paradox-of-tolerance spiral... for no reason whatsoever...
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The paradox of tolerance isn’t a contradiction.
It’s a warning.
Love without discernment invites its own destruction.
So we must ask:
How do we preserve open society—without letting it be devoured by those who would close it?
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