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I suffer from the paradox of tolerance whereby those who want a tolerant society must not tolerate intolerance. Those that are intolerant must be removed from society if you are to truly achieve tolerance.
I guess I'm fascist now too..
The paradox is the result of the liberalist idea of some universal right to tolerance; that there's some inherent moral or pragmatic obligation for us to just tolerate everyone and everything possible.
There's no moral nor pragmatic benefit to tolerating neo-nazis in a community. We don't need some mental gymanastical paradox to excuse that fact. Being a neo-nazi is a personal choice to be harmful antisocial scum, comparable to child abusers and billionaires, and the abstract liberalist idea that they automatically deserve freedom, liberty or tolerance in the first place is pointless and dangerous.
The biggest issue with this is that people that think like this tend to throw accusations like “neo-Nazi” out like lollies, at everyone that they disagree with about on certain things that are in no way “nazi-esque”.
Disliking the “welcome to country” does not make you a neo-Nazi. It is a divisive thing. It’s not some centuries old tradition, it was invented by Ernie Dingo in like the 90s. Many, many people think it’s completely pointless and irrelevant, and they’re entitled to that opinion just like you’re entitled to your opinion that it makes them racist. It doesn’t mean you’re automatically right and they’re wrong though.
In this specific situation - welcome to country at an ANZAC day ceremony - it is extremely debatable about its use. The ANZACs, 99% of who were white non-indigenous people, died defending this country. “Welcoming” their relatives to the very country is rightly seen as incredibly disrespectful by many. Without those ANZACs giving their life to defend this country that is being claimed is not theirs, the aboriginals might have been eradicated off the face of the earth.
Saying this is not racist. It’s not “neo-Nazi” views. You claim it is as an excuse to be intolerant towards those people. No matter how you try to sugar coat it, you are being intolerant.
Except these are views held by self identitifed neo-nazis. Just because non-nazis also hold that view, doesn't change they fact they are neo-nazi views.
There will be no tolerance of nazis or their offensive beliefs here. To that end I've revoked your mod role. Further antagonism will result in a ban. I'm not interested in discussing this. If you continue to trolling while trying to give the impression of good faith discussion, you'll be banned.
That the view is also held by “neo Nazis” does not mean it is a neo-Nazi view. If neo-Nazis believe the earth is round does that make anyone that thinks the earth is round a neo-Nazi? No.
I have no tolerance for Nazis. Not every belief that a Nazi holds is an offensive belief, as I just showed. Saying that a welcome to country at the Anzac ceremony is disrespectful to the ANZACs who fought and died for this country is NOT a Nazi belief. That’s absolutely ridiculous.
Where’s this list of neo-Nazi beliefs btw? I was going to make a thread on the NRL channel about how the season and teams are looking so far, but I think I’d better check what the official Neo-Nazi position is on the Broncos performances before I do. I wonder if the neo-Nazis believe that the instant sin-bin for high shots is ruining games regularly, because if so I’d better not say that one, wouldn’t want to be banned for holding a neo-Nazi belief. Which hot chips do the neo-Nazis believe are the best? I’m a red rooster kinda guy, but I don’t want to be a neo-Nazi if that’s what their official position is as well.
Revoking my mod permission over this is beyond an abuse of power. Ban away.