It’s been more than a week since MPP Sarah Jama was booted from the Ontario NDP caucus and censured by the Ontario government for daring to name Israel as an Apartheid state. It’s been more than a week since CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn agreed to
  • @[email protected]
    4•1 year ago

    Which means that you tolerate intolerance.

    as long as we can counter them by rational argument

    The saying goes that you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

    De-platforming is a means to show that the platform doesn’t want to be associated with specific content. Being against de-platforming means you are on the side of forced speech.

    • @[email protected]English
      -3•1 year ago

      I’ve never heard the term forced speech before, the only references I can find are legal referring to compelled testimony in court. Can you give me a reference so I can better understand you?

      The saying goes that you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

      I’m afraid I missed that part of Open Society, my understanding is the intolerance of tolerance was making it criminal to have calls to violence, at least as I understood the book.