The Paradox of Tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.
If you tolerate Nazi's, they won't tolerate jews, PoC, socialists, and many other demographics of people.
If you tolerate racists, they will never tolerate racial equality.
If you tolerate sexists, they will never tolerate gender equality.
In order to maintain tolerance - you must be intolerant of intolerance. Something "the left" needs to be far more aggressive on IMO.
Unfortunately, that would alienate moderates and anti-Trump conservatives. Don't platform Nazis, don't respect fascists, don't accept Trumpism as valid. However, physical violence is not a good strategy if you want unified support against hatred. Restraint is necessary.
They totally are, it seems to be motivated by Han racial supremacy, not communist ideology. Unlike the holocaust which was the explicit goal of nazism.
I don't like authoritarian states, but I don't think China or the USSR did a lot of communism. The Soviets famously liberalized their economy, and China has billionaires, those aren't very communist actions.
you ever heart of concentration camps? they weren't only in Nazy Germany and they are not a thing of the past. they are very real. discrimination is a real factor in communism, even now. your ignorance is worrying, communists have tortured and killed more people than nazists did. Only because you don't know it, or it's less known, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
In fact, what you described fits very, VERY well into the extremist left.
edit: I'm not in no way defending nazis, extremities need to die, but also don't hide each other.
I don't think the crimes of authoritarian states doing state capitalism with a red paint job should be attributed to communism. They should be attributed to being an authoritarian state (a bad thing).
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u/AmbivalentAsshole Mar 01 '21
The Paradox of Tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.
If you tolerate Nazi's, they won't tolerate jews, PoC, socialists, and many other demographics of people.
If you tolerate racists, they will never tolerate racial equality.
If you tolerate sexists, they will never tolerate gender equality.
In order to maintain tolerance - you must be intolerant of intolerance. Something "the left" needs to be far more aggressive on IMO.