[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by whell

And all this time I thought tolerance was a virtue. I'm familiar with Popper, but his paradox of tolerance idea has practical limitations, most notably that fact that there isn't always agreement about what shouldn't be tolerated. Regardless, even Popper made the point that:

I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise.

I don't think there are any shortages of rational arguments that counter Nazism or white supremacy, nor do I think that public opinion is at risk of being overrun by Nazism or white supremacy. The same is true for Antifa and BLM.

BLM doesn't equate to antifa.