Old, but seems relevant

  • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

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    [A]s long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force

    Karl Popper, 1945, The Open Society and Its Enemies