Damus
21 Stackage 🦡 · 6w
What if their beliefs incite violence towards people that are deemed inferior? There aren't many choices left besides violence at that point. There's no such thing as 'tolerating the intolerant' witho...
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this isn't complicated.
if people are inciting violence, that's one thing. but if anybody is suggesting that was going on, that's the first I've heard of it.

most cultures think that their own way of doing things and of being a human being is better.
and people usually prefer the company of those who are culturally and ethnically similar to themselves.
this is normal.

simply wanting to associate with people who are ethnically similar to yourself is NOT inherently violent and is NOT "inciting violence."
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21 Stackage 🦡 · 6w
This is ahistorical because - not all cultures are chauvinistic towards people outside of their communities - this tendency of ethnic affiliation when it centers "whiteness" results in ostracization of people deemed to be the outgroup and the erection of caste systems. See: the Transatlantic Slave T...
mister_monster · 6w
"Believing a certain thing inevitably leads to violence" say the people who believe violence is warranted against someone for believing a thing. I wonder if they realize the paradox of tolerance applies to them too.