Re:China launches platform to stamp out 'online rumours'
by blt on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:23PM
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Nah, I'm intolerant of nazis, and that's not the same as being intolerant of jews.
Re:China launches platform to stamp out 'online rumours'
by bilbo0s on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:56PM
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No one said it's the same. This is the problem, you take an extreme case and you say, "See! Since this [insert ridiculously extremist case here] is obviously bad then my [insert more reasonable case here] is good!"
No one's talking about the obvious stuff here. Like Nazis, or forcing blacks back into slavery or something. I'm talking about being intolerant of reasonable ideas.
It's perfectly reasonable for a bunch of congressmen to get together for a baseball game without being shot.
It's perfectly reasonable for young black military officers to walk up a city street without having a knife stuck in his chest.
Don't even get me started on how reasonable it is for little old ladies to go to churches.
Both are characterized by marked intolerance. A small minority of both are what I would term "Violently Intolerant". You can get yourself killed for being a congressman at a baseball game, or for being black and going to bible study or walking up a street. The "Left" and the "Right", particularly their extremists, are just bad business all around when it comes to what we would typically term "tolerance".