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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Tolerance is just an extension of the social contract. Intolerant people are actively violating the social contract and, as such, are not eligible for the benefits such a contract provides. This has been settled law for millennia. Live and let live... or else.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Grade 9 level understanding of anthropology right here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Meh, I'm not a Nazi so no offense taken.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's kind of like pest control. I don't hate termites. I just can't have them tearing up my home, so they have to be exterminated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

How is this relevant to the post

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

That’s just something the ignorant say

If you try to get rid of intolerance then you will find they out number you and it will lead to a more intolerant society

You have to limit the ability for it to spread by expanding education and publicly engage with them to challenge their ideas so that others can see the faults in their logic

The worst thing you can do is force them into their own communities, something social media promotes, because then intolerance grows

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

publicly engage with them to challenge their ideas so that others can see the faults in their logic

Yes, but you want to be careful you're not lending legitimacy to their movement, either. If it's a fringe, wacko idea, it shouldn't be on NBC.

But yeah, inoculating people against the kinds of arguments they make is good work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This is actually what Karl Popper said if you read the entire quote. This comic cut out that part.