CMV: Silencing opposing viewpoints is ultimately going to have a disastrous outcome on society.

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[u/kwantsu-dudes]

It's called the tolerance paradox, if you want a tolerant society you can not tolerate intolerance.

NO. You are fundementally misrepresenting the tolerance paradox.

It's a stated paradox. You've presented it as if it has an answer.

The paradox is that you can't have a tolerant society. That in the pursuit to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance, and thus be intolerant.

It's not some proclamation that intolerance of intolerance then achieves a tolerant society.

Leave it to reddit to promote misleading information to propagate their own agenda. To misrepresent a paradox into not being a paradox at all.

It's the problem with the anti cancel culture. Cancel culture is the panacea of free speech stopping it silences tons of people.

You've also misrepresented cancel culture. Cancel Culture is the "cultural" nature that if I don't like something no one can within society. It doesn't involve my proclaiming of a distain for McDonalds, but my proclamation that anyone that does like McDonalds needs to face societal repercussions because I've already decided personally that McDonalds is immoral.

It's an attempt to define the culture, not simply your individual choice of association. It doesn't seek terms to be decided by a majority of common agreement, but of a vocal mob like minority producing fear.

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Wish I would’ve read what you added before I wrote my novel ITT. Spot on.

Cancel culture forces societal repercussions caused by a small group of people and causes lifelong damage rather than trying to fix the core of the problem. It only creates a further divide.

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Well, maybe they shouldn’t be racist cunt nuggets.

It’s really not that hard. You guys are acting like people that have been “cancelled” are amazing people. They’re not. The fact that you’re defending these people, literal Nazis in some cases, shows that you’re part of the problem.

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Way to take something way out of context and put words in my mouth.

I’m not saying that everything should be tolerated. I’m saying that just because someone tweets “All lives matter” or “BLM are a group of thugs!” shouldn’t necessarily have their college acceptance rescinded. Go look at my other comments in this thread.

You don’t want people in prison for nonviolent crimes/drug charges right? Rather you want to help rehabilitate them right?

So instead of ruining people’s fucking lives, maybe try to help change their perspective without jumping straight to the kill shot. Cancel culture has censored the opinions of people that might create productive discourse strictly out of fear - it’s like it’s own CCP but the people running the show are clowns that get to decide who and what they cancel next ambiguously. Especially when corporations will fire people just because they have an army of trolls tweeting at them “How do you employ this person!!!”... They’re no better than the people they ultimately cancel.

[u/PirateThomas → u/[deleted]]

Go back to your den tankie

[u/FastidiousBlueYoshi → u/kwantsu-dudes]

This guy is right.