Wiki - The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

  • InternetTubes@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Same with multiculturalism, it can’t exist by accepting cultures that won’t accept other cultures, for pretty much the exact same reasons. Yet every time I’ve mentioned it someone sees it as a “dog whistle” for something, usually islamophobia, which is just such a non-sequitur - there are branches of Islam that have no problem being part of a multicultural society, just like there are branches of Christianity that are intolerant and shouldn’t be part of a multicultural society.