It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit.

I am also glad that I’m getting away from reddit’s general political shitposting, which was more left leaning. You couldn’t have any proper discourse on there, and even I with my generally more left leaning views recognized that.

  • lvxferre
    3•1 year ago

    I get why you’re posting this comic and I contextually agree with you. However, the comic itself is bad, and it distorts quite a bit what Popper said.

    The quote in the Wikipedia link that you’ve shared is considerably better:

    Less well known [than other paradoxes] is the paradox of tolerance: 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.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.

    • ZagorathEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      Sorry, but what comic are you referring to? Some other users also referenced panels of a comic, but I don’t see any comic—or any link other than to Wikipedia.

      Has the user edited it out?

      • Mr_Figtree
        2•1 year ago

        Either it was edited in and that edit didn’t reach your instance, or Lemmy doesn’t like something about how Kbin does images. Either way, here’s a direct link to the comic (you’ll have seen it before, it’s posted a lot).

        • ZagorathEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          and that edit didn’t reach your instance

          Annoyingly, I can’t view the post from its own instance because it seems like Kbin requires an account even to view?

          Would love if someone has a Lemmy link to any instance other than mine so I can rule out that first possibility.

          or Lemmy doesn’t like something about how Kbin does images

          This is definitely very possible. I’ve already encountered cases where Kbin users weren’t able to interact with my images from Lemmy in quite the same way Lemmy users could.