08-20-2024, 12:58 AM
Popper's "paradox of tolerance" is that "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.... 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" (Popper 1947, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1, p. 226). In this formulation, the censor is "the intolerant," and censorship (among other acts of intolerance and persecution) is the crime. I agree 100%. Thanks again.