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[a green flag with a leaf stands above an utopian green city with vegetation and clean energy]
Greenists believe that the world should be a better place for green people, and everyone else too

[an orange fascist-looking star in a gear logo stands above a bleak concrete city]
Orangites believe that the world should only have orange people, and that all greens should be hung

[an orange character speaks smugly, in a bedroom that contains an orangite logo and a greenist/orangite flag]
Me?
I'm a greenist-orangite,
why do you ask?

https://thebad.website/comic/coherent_ideology

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Uh... no? This comic has absolutely nothing to do with the paradox of tolerance.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Care to explain why you think that?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This comic is about clowns (nominally) combining murderous hateful ideologies with ideologies concerned with improving people's lives; no part of it is concerned with what happens if you tolerate hateful murderous ideologies.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw it as a swipe at centrism. The green-orange clown being the centrist under review.

And it is a paradox of tolerance issue: trying to tolerate both a friendly ideology and a murderous one merely leaves space for the murderers to murder.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

trying to tolerate both a friendly ideology and a murderous one merely leaves space for the murderers to murder.

Sure, but the comic never actually addresses that though; it's more a swipe at the absurdity of the idea itself.

It doesn’t spell it out, it leaves it as an exercise for the reader. But it does tee it up for us!