How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack

Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by johnnyanmac on Monday March 31, 2025 @07:16PM (#43541027)

I don't see the paradox. You can consider some people idiots and find it condemnable for idiots to be kidnapped in vans or have their visas revoked.

If anything it's a slipperly slope logic. These people are idiots -> these people deserve bad things happening. Unfortuntaely, the admin is proving all those fallacies before us.

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by try_the_bass on Monday March 31, 2025 @11:37PM (#43542591)

> These people are idiots -> these people deserve bad things happening.

These are unfortunately the only circumstances in which I ever see Popper's "paradox" invoked.

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by h0l0cube on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @06:17PM (#43551897)

'Considering some people idiots' is intolerance. Tolerating that kind of intolerance in the name of free speech in the marketplace of ideas or whatever can allow that intolerance to gain traction such that intolerance becomes a dominant mode of thinking, via tolerating people. Is that not the paradox?

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