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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.

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[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or perhaps some people aren't fascist when they are angry about the communication problems with refugees, for example . Perhaps they are just simple minded, a bit stupid, politically uninterested, whatever.

These people will always exist. They don't go away when we hate them a lot. Or when we label them as fascist in some kind of Gotcha moment.

A practical solution would be to deal with their problems. Which can easily be done if you are willing to pay a bit of money for community centers etc., which could help with communication and integration tremendously.

It's a mislead interpretation of what tolerance means that makes people wilfully blind to these issues. They will even risk having a party like the AFD growing in seats for this.

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Understanding any problem is a crucial condition for solving it. That includes accurately understanding and characterizing what's going on. The goal isn't to name-call people sucked into a fascist movement, it's to not bury our heads in the sand and pretend fascism isn't making a huge comeback. That includes actually being able to explain to these people the nature and structure of a fascist movement so they can understand how they've been duped.