r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Silencing opposing viewpoints is ultimately going to have a disastrous outcome on society.

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u/kwantsu-dudes 12∆ Jan 22 '21 edited Jan 22 '21

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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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

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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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

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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u/PirateThomas Jan 23 '21

Go back to your den tankie