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Please, can we put this canard to rest? It is an extremely simplistic take that is bordering on cliche at this point. It adds nothing, it illuminates nothing, and it fails to address any of the very real and complex issues by turning everything into a binary of tolerant/intolerant.

Is the irony that this cuts both ways not obvious? Seems very clear; the left thinks the right is intolerant and must be silenced, the right thinks the left is intolerant and must be hobbled. The twist is that both sides are absolutely correct: the other side is intolerant.

The Paradox of Tolerance is a great game theory exercise, just like Mutually Assured Destruction, but I'd prefer to live in a society where we don't lean into these strategies with our foot on the gas.

A witty saying proves nothing, and in this case it particularly doesn't since you seem you do not know what else was being said when it was written by its author.

Calls to violence were not, and are not, protected speech. It is a false argument to say they should be now.

I'm saying calls to violence are what we should be intolerant about.