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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by zanny on Saturday June 27, 2020 @11:11PM (#23666507)
Insert paradox of intolerance here.

We want to act like we are purely rational beings, and maybe some of us operate on that level consistently, but those of us that do not, even for a moment, are ripe to have their animal brains taken advantage of for evil.

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by antepodius on Sunday June 28, 2020 @02:35PM (#23670982)
That isn't the paradox of tolerance. That's you, the upper-class intelligentia, deciding the fate of the subhuman masses.
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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by nothal on Sunday June 28, 2020 @12:11AM (#23666688)
The paradox of tolerance is an iffy justification. It's an anecdotal testament of someone who survived the Holocaust, IIRC. Not to minimize the Holocaust or any part of it. That said, as far as I've seen, there's no established historical pattern that fascism is a function of societal tolerance of intolerant ideologies.
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