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Lemmy

Even if you accept that Nazis should be tolerated, being tolerant doesn’t mean infinite tolerance.

I think that falls under the black and white fallacy. Just because someone tolerates one thing, doesn’t mean they are obligated to tolerate everything.

Tolerance is a social contract. A pact.

We, socially, tolerate people who don’t violate the social pact. As long as they aren’t hurting anyone.

The social pact is one of goodwill and non-harm, regardless of impact.

If you can’t keep to that pact, you forget any claim to tolerance because you, yourself, are not holding up the ideals of tolerance. Which include race, creed, religion, whatever, pick a (normal person) thing and we are ok with it!

We let our governments get away with breaking the pact, but… if we didn’t it would be a lot easier to enforce overall…

And we’d all be better off.