Wiki - The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

  • LemmysMum@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You said speech against governments should be protected.

    Yes

    So if we ban speaking about X, that’s government action.

    You shouldn’t ban speaking about anything. This is where you missed the point.

    Think of it like this. It should be illegal to be a Nazi. It should be legal to discuss Naziism.

    It should be illegal to use racial epithets directed at a person in hate, but it should be legal to say and talk about those words.

    It’s called contextual nuance, and until you have a solid grasp of it you won’t be able to make accurate determinations.