cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26284554
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 20 February 2025 21:44 GMTAlex Tyrrell, party leader of the Green Party of Quebec, who accompanied Engler to the police station on Thursday, spoke to the Middle East Eye about Engler’s arrest.
“I think it’s a shocking attack on free expression and democratic rights and criticism of Israel in Canada - a country that’s supposed to be a free, democratic society. We’re supposed to speak out about a genocide," Tyrrel told MEE.
You can’t define intolerance by defining tolerance as being intolerant of intolerance. You just made a loop
Tolerance is by its nature defined as the inverse of intolerance, and vice versa. That’s what the “in” at the start of “intolerance” means. They are each defined as the negation of the other.
A tolerant society is one that believes all people have a fundamental right to exist and live freely. It’s really that simple. Intolerance is therefore that belief that some people do not have a fundamental right to exist and live freely.
Yes, I understand that part, I’m saying you first need to first define tolerance to negate it.
By your definition, in a tolerant society I have the right to exercise free speech. I’m not shielded from consequences of my actions, for example if it’s libel. I can say anything I want about your business, but it is not true and it causes damages I’m liable for the damages.
By saying I don’t have the right to express my political opinions you’re being intolerant by your definition since you don’t believe I should be able to live free, correct?
Yes, that is correct. Hence the “Paradox” in the “Paradox of tolerance.”
Paradoxically it is necessary that a tolerant society be intolerant of one thing and one thing only; intolerance.