How can we both tolerant and resist harmful intolerance at the same time?
This thought provoked essays from such people as Popper who emigrated to NZ to escape Nazi brutal, unthinkably cruel, life destroying, intolerance.
We need to pay attention. bigthink.com/21st-century-s…
This thought provoked essays from such people as Popper who emigrated to NZ to escape Nazi brutal, unthinkably cruel, life destroying, intolerance.
We need to pay attention. bigthink.com/21st-century-s…
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed-tolerance with them
“We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal.”
Popper.
Popper.
It should be remembered, as this article pointed out, that Popper lived before the Internet age. What would he think now?
I find myself in a strange place.
Always an upholder of the rule of law.
What if Parliament and the legal system does not or cannot defend it?
What then?
I find myself in a strange place.
Always an upholder of the rule of law.
What if Parliament and the legal system does not or cannot defend it?
What then?
