• molave
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    1 year ago

    Consider… what went wrong is that no one pushed back on Panel Two using the very same free marketplace of ideas.

    Panel One: Fighting for everyone’s right to express themselves is fine. Good as it is.

    Panel Two: Destroy the bigot’s arguments and describe to the public what society will be like if the bigot gets their way. Is that tolerating intolerance?

    • @Nurgle
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      571 year ago

      Exactly. That’s how we were able to nip the whole global warming thing in the bud. Thank god rational arguments always prevail.

    • @[email protected]
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      361 year ago

      Panel Two: Destroy the bigot’s arguments and describe to the public what society will be like if the bigot gets their way. Is that tolerating intolerance?

      I can’t believe no one thought of this. And here planned parenthood and the grieving families at funerals of vets have just been sitting by listening to the noise.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Calling people out on their BS is the right line to draw for me personally, but I still want that person to have the right to express their opinion. We just need to teach people that it’s ok to be wrong as long as you can admit it and learn from it. No idea gets processed until pushed from an opposing party.

      Sitting back and doing nothing teaches nothing. Calling it appalling and informing the person why they’re wrong is the right step toward change. But if you can’t say it in a way that makes them hear you, then you’re doomed to have the argument all over again.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I’d say that’s tolerating intolerance and is the right thing to do. Once they switch to violence though, remember you have a robust right to defend yourself, your community and your loved ones.

    • @electrogamerman
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      21 year ago

      But then you are called anti islamist or isla mophobic. Yes, i went there.

    • @Piers
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      11 year ago

      Yes it is tolerating intolerance.