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

Couldn't you separate all that from the core belief of wanting a nationalist form of socialism?

@Hyolobrika

"A nationalist form of socialism" is not the sane as "Nationalist Socialism" which is a synonym for the nazi party.

The names of partys and politicial movements are often quite different than the literal meaning of the words as a descriptor.

@ned @volkris @realcaseyrollins

My (and I think Ned's) point was that the Nazi party had a specific economic ideology that is logically separable from the murderous and socially authoritarian part, and we should judge each part separately.
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@Hyolobrika

Sure. I really dont care if you could find some aspect of their policy that happens to bea good idea.. I mean they didnt have very many good ideas, but im not going to say something is bad just cause its associated with nazis alone. As I often point out, Hitler liked birthday cakes, it doesnt make birthday cakes evil.

@ned @volkris @realcaseyrollins

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