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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by bjustin on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:47AM (#24755633)
>What is tolerance? You can't tolerate something if you agree with it. Tolerance means putting up with things with which you disagree.

That's an easy one. Tolerance is putting up with things other people do, except when those other people are being intolerant. You can make a comfortable place for intolerant groups, or for the people they target, but not both. Better to remove the intolerance.

Removing holocaust denial is an easy win here. It will be more interesting to see if Facebook chooses to remove less obviously bad content.

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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by baobabKoodaa on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:00PM (#24759941)
Translation: tolerance means tolerating opinions that are agreeable to you personally. Opinions which are offensive to you can be labelled "intolerant", and under that guise they should be silenced.
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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:13PM (#24760051)
That isn't what bjustin said. But in practice, I fear you may be right.
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