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The paradox of Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is those that use his Paradox of Intolerance as a weapon are doing so in the name of unlimited tolerance and fulfil the actual conditions that Popper stated would lead to the elimination of the tolerant through the ascendancy of the intolerant:

>Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance [i.e. "diversity at all costs"] must lead to the disappearance of tolerance [i.e. the ability to agree to disagree]. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant [i.e. heretic-hunting ideological conformists], 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.

Tolerance is not enthusiastic embrace, but "the willingness to accept or tolerate someone or something, especially opinions or behavior that you may not agree with, or people who are not like you." These heresy hunters are strictly intolerant by the meaning of the word and destroy the predicates of a tolerant society.




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