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Does the Left need to be more tolerant of intolerance?

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  • 2 years ago

    No - the extreme left has this fairly well perfected and no "improvement" is possible.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    😄

    It's a free country.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    "Intolerance" is a misnomer, you're asking a very convoluted question by using that word.

    Bald face racism isn't the same thing as "intolerance," but many people on both sides are intolerant to any people who have different views on what exactly constitutes racism.

    Hence "Bald Face Racism," often what is called racism can too easily be pointed out to have other possible reasons for happening. We do not know if the person who performed the act is actually racist or not unless we have a recording of some kind of racially powered diatribe.

    As Nietzsche is known to have said, he that battles monsters should take care to ensure he does not become a monster himself. When you stare deep into the Abyss, the abyss stares straight back at you.

    Or rather, the intolerance over "bald face racism" has only succeeded in creating more racists as we see people being more willing to lash out at these faceless enemies of good. What racism is depends on which side you're on, both are against racism but both are also racist.

    Sorry, but you're simply uneducated. Read some books written by more intelligent people than both of us, learn some philosophy. Incorrectly throwing out random informal logical fallacies isn't going to change that your argument is basically just "I don't agree with you, so there." I gave you a good reference to begin with, beyond good and evil is well known and is a good starting place.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    It's interesting how intolerance of bigots is bigotry but it's more complicated than that. It's about the difference between right and wrong. When people tolerate wrong (let's say racism), passiveness is akin to tacit approval. That puts them more so on the side w/ the racists (who think racism is right) than the people expressing zero tolerance w/ activism against racism.

    It's like, damn straight I'm prejudice. I'm prejudiced against evil.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Liberal fascists are the party of intolerance.

  • Vela
    Lv 6
    2 years ago

    no

    they never said they tolerate bad things

  • 2 years ago

    They Are! (But only if the intolerance is directed toward those who love Liberty.)

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