Remember the days when tolerance and appreciating new perspectives and differences of opinion were considered a virtue?

Peppridge farms remembers.

@freemo NO BUT DON’T YOU SEE TOLERANCE IS A PARADOX SO YOU HAVE TO BE INTOLERANT

@freemo @realcaseyrollins

2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of two

Tolerance is absolutely a virtue for sufficiently intolerant definitions of tolerant.

@volkris

I am not suggesting you should be tolerant of everything, No one needs to be tolerant of literal Nazis for example. But when everyone and everything that disagrees with you looks like a Nazi.....

@realcaseyrollins

@freemo @volkris @realcaseyrollins is a NAZI evil because they support a political position of nationalist socialism. Or because they want to kill Jews? We should be judging people by their specific abhorrent views, not their associations.

@ned

It would depend on what exactly we agree "nationalist socialism" entails... wanting to commit genocide is certainly the **biggest** reason their evil, but it may not be the only one.

@volkris @realcaseyrollins

@Hyolobrika

For the nazi specifically? The murder and oppression of pretty much anything that isnt seen as the "norm" in society from minotiries to gays. The banning (or rather enforcement of such bans) on guns, freedom of speech, right to assemble. There are TONS of bad things they did that goes beyond simply killing the Jews.

@ned @volkris @realcaseyrollins

@freemo @Hyolobrika @volkris @realcaseyrollins America and other so called "free" nations have all done shit like that. The point is you are using it as a filter to determine who you can tolerate and who you can't. And I'm just challenging your assumptions.
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@ned

Sure America has... when did I ever claim America was the good guys?

@volkris @Hyolobrika @realcaseyrollins

@freemo @volkris @Hyolobrika @realcaseyrollins they're just the big obvious counter example is all.

Personally I don't think we should tolerate everyone. Or even certain ideas. But at the same time I am at odds with the values that my country (or the western world in general) choose to be intolerant of. Or perhaps more accurately, the ones they choose to tolerate that they shouldn't.
@freemo @volkris @ned @freemo @volkris @Hyolobrika
And that's the problem with intolerance at an institutional level; kung fu fighting is all fun and games until you got kicked in the gonads.

@realcaseyrollins

Everything at every level is a balance. Even in the USA where free speech (And the tolerance that goes with it) is a primary right. Yet even in america tolerance has its limits, and there are in fact quite a few restrictions with regards to the appropriate way to express your rights.

@ned @volkris @Hyolobrika

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