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by woodgrainz 1984 days ago
The Paradox of Tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

3 comments

Ah that's a good point. The only think that need not be tolerated is intolerance itself. Sadly, tolerance easily can stem from the lack of backbone than from the abundance of it.
I would also propose there is a Dunning-Kruger Corollary of Tolerance, which is that the more intolerant a person is the more likely they are to perceive themselves as tolerant, and perceive people who disagree with them as intolerant.
Yes, sadly that seems to be what has happened at Google, Facebook, Twitter etc.