Karl Popper

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   Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 11:41:34 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦

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   Many are familiar with Karl Popper's "The Paradox of Tolerance." If you're not: briefly, if we are tolerant of intolerance, intolerance will grow and kill tolerance.

   But it's not really a paradox, it's simple logic: intolerance of intolerance *is* tolerance (a negative of a negative is a positive). The problem is many (not all) intolerant types don't understand they are intolerant. Their indecency and ignorance just "makes sense" so they are incensed when tolerant folk go after them.

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