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Read that as a personal attack instead of a quote when it popped up in my alerts, and was very confused about what I did lol.
But yeah, when your plan is to execute a group because you find their beliefs repugnant, you've become the villain in the scenario. The solution to the paradox of tolerance definitely isn't genocide.
It's neither, it's a rhetorical "you". Should've been clearer about that, sorry.
The thing about the paradox of tolerance is that the intolerance mentioned there is not regular bigotry. It's quite specifically about a threat to the marketplace of ideas.