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I Have No Tolerance For Bullshit

To all the fascists, racists, homophobes and the rest scum of the Earth, wondering why people don't tolerate their bullshit and why they're not allowed to practice hate speech freely, even though we're supposed to be democratic:
[quote] Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. [...] We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. [/quote]-Karl Popper

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GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M

Democracy doesn't work.

HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

@GeistInTheMachine as Isocrates said: "Because those who governed the city at that time (meaning ancient Athens, when democracy was born), did not create a polity which was considered the most liberal and mildest of all only in name, while in practice it appeared different to those who lived it; neither a government that educates its citizens to regard indecency as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, insolence as equality, and bliss as the power of each to do what they please, but a government that, showing its abhorrence to those who they did these things, and by punishing them, made all citizens better and wiser."