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Are you aware of the equally common objection to “I can tolerate anything except intolerance”: that if allowed to censor in the name of tolerance, our self-appointed guardians will simply call whatever they don’t like “intolerance” and censor it? (Or “stochastic terrorism”, or “micro-aggression”, or “online harms”, or “misinformation”, or “trolling”, or “sealioning”, or “toxicity”, etc). Certainly one must draw the line somewhere. But the speech debate doesn’t end at the Paradox of Tolerance, and at this point I assume anyone who brings it up in isolation is doing so in bad faith.



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