- You not getting a job.
- You losing a job.
- You getting "moved" to small villages (e.g. as a teacher).
And if they couldn't affect you they went for your relative. E.g. your children being bared from studying at a university even if they are qualified and so on.
The whole film is fantastic.
I'd highly recommend also watching Christian Petzold's Barbara [1]. It's an equally fine film, but it has a different focus.
Here, the heroine is an ordinary physician (played by Nina Hoss), banished from Berlin to some province. The film captures the nightmare for the ordinary citizen of authoritarian police states, including the depressing fact that nearly anyone in your life could be informing on you. We also see how cooperating with the state authorities can get you privileges, such as better housing.
[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2178941/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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p.s.: this review is quite good. Almost felt like quoting it in full, as it is rather topical to the thread as well:
It's very German, but also very Soviet, it's almost surreal.
These two seem to be getting more popular nowadays.
If it's "we the people", it's totally fair and indicative of a very progressive and tolerant society. Or something.
This is a very dishonest framing.
However, the tightly guarded boundary between "tolerant" and "intolerant", as well as "context thereof" must be defined precisely and not be moved around according to one's mood, or depending on whether someone is losing an argument, or whether someone is in an outgroup or in an ingroup.
A good application of the paradox of tolerance requires integrity, which is a threatened species among human traits.