• 58008@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    There are different types and expressions of tolerance, so I think getting tied up in knots about a mythical all-encompassing tolerance that no cunt on Earth preaches (not even Jesus or the Buddha) is probably a side quest that doesn’t need completing. It’s like two linguists who’ve read a class of philosophy having a grammar nazi stand-off. You may as well include being abused and conned by criminals in that kind of tolerance, which is obviously stupid, but it’s no more stupid than thinking your personal philosophy is threatened when faced with a nazi whose goals you wanna prevent coming to fruition.

    Tolerating people who have characteristics that are not necessarily of their own choosing is not in the same ballpark as tolerating those who want to eradicate that first group. “Leave people alone” is better, it includes preventing the non-leaving alone of people by cunts, e.g. nazis, with no paradoxes involved. “But leave me alone to be a nazi!” ok, what does being a nazi involve? “The sterilisation and extermination of…” lemme just stop you there. Done!