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The Paradox of tolerance and current events

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The Paradox of tolerance and current events
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RE: The Paradox of tolerance and current events
August 19, 2017 at 6:14 pm (This post was last modified: August 19, 2017 at 6:16 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 18, 2017 at 8:43 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: If you mean we give bigots and racists a heaping dose of shame and jail the ones that violate the law, I agree wholeheartedly. I think shaming  would be most effective by those on the right shaming the right wing bigots.

Agreed -- no critique hurts more than the one coming from the back.
(August 19, 2017 at 4:27 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: Karl Popper. Excellent read on the subject and a stance (sometimes you have to be intolerant of intolerance) I agree with.

On a personal level, absolutely.

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The Paradox of tolerance and current events

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The Paradox of tolerance and current events - by TaraJo - August 18, 2017 at 6:22 pm
RE: The Paradox of tolerance and current events - by Brian37 - August 18, 2017 at 10:07 pm
RE: The Paradox of tolerance and current events - by Thumpalumpacus - August 19, 2017 at 6:14 pm

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