• cmhe@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        If you want a tolerant society, you cannot tolerate the intolerant.

        If you want democracy, you must suppress anti-democratic ideas.

        You have to fight for want you believe in, and not let antithetical ideas fester and subvert yours, just because they exploit your tolerance and use the space you give them to fight it.

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          1 year ago

          Sure, but your methodology for determining what is an anti-democratic idea should be really tight, before you raid/arrest people.

          No one wants murders in their society, but showing that they did that action is more important than stating that an action is wrong/anti-democratic/immoral etc.

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            1 year ago

            If they call for genocide? Yes, of course.

            What makes you think society should just sit idly by and do nothing when people call for mass murder and genocide?