Post #3682547

2026-06-30 22:14 UTC

Never heard of the tolerance paradox have you? The way to resolve the tolerance paradox is to not tolerate intolerance. “Donating money to” and “bankrolling the entire party, 10x-ing their entire funding in 2024 alone” are different things. There are SO many people here who would happily dine with actual fascists just because they “make a good product.” Completely ignoring what their funds that support them go to and lead to direct harm. And if you think I’m hyperbolic, please, tell me how this is an incorrect line of thinking: lemmy.zip/comment/27359847

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@stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2026-07-01 00:44

I agree with you about the tolerance paradox. I am sure you’d also agree that we must decide when to apply it because not every disagreement is a tolerance paradox. But now that we’ve named the tolerance paradox, now that it’s a meme we can just invoke on a dime, I find it gets used constantly. The word fascist is also everywhere now. Anything remotely draconian and you are a fascist and then a Nazi. The word Nazi gets thrown around very lightly around here. And the conversation slips very quickly from “don’t tolerate Nazis” to “it’s okay to punch them in the face” to “it’s a moral imperative to kill them.” I think we should be extremely judicious about deciding it’s a moral imperative to kill anyone. And I don’t see that extreme judiciousness around Lemmy generally. This political party’s beliefs are repugnant. And I am not ready to call for the death of someone who gives them money. I’m not saying I know exactly where to draw the line. But when I even try to engage people on where the line should be, I quickly find myself on the other side of it in their eyes. I’m an apologist, a collaborator, a fascist myself, and so on. This climate overall is deeply uncomfortable for me and even worse is the lack of self reflection about it. Maybe my problem is thinking that discussion actually matters and trying to fully engage the topic, when others are just here to talk big and pronounce death upon their perceived foes.

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