If everyone is tolerant of every idea, then intolerant ideas will emerge. Tolerant people will tolerate this intolerance, and the intolerant people will not tolerate the tolerant people. Eventually, the intolerant people will take over and create a society of intolerance. Therefore, Popper said, to maintain a society of tolerance, the tolerant must be intolerant of intolerance…
@leidkultur@analyticus@philosophy@gerritbeine tolerance is a social contract. People that show intolerance do not fulfill their part of the contract and therefore do not deserve tolerance on our end. Tolerance only works as a mutually agreeable state.