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He moderates a forum about growing tomatoes. Allowing a nazi to talk about tomatoes has nothing to do with Poppers Paradox. He literally said that if the guy brings his nazi ideology to the discord he will get banned. If anything allowing the nazi to interact with other people that grow tomatoes might help him grow out of his nonsense.

Mods have enough work to do to keep their discord in order. He has no time to police every single users individual beliefs.

I'm guessing you asked chatgpt to summarise the post for you and it got it badly wrong. I'd suggest reading the original if your want to discuss it.

"Paradox of Tolerance" is a question, not an answer. You can't use it as a cudgel to "win" any discussion.

> "Paradox of Tolerance" is a question, not an answer.

No, it is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

> You can't use it as a cudgel to "win" any discussion.

Sure, one cannot in all cases, no.

But when the discussion is "must we extend freedom of expression of beliefs to those who wish to deny others their freedoms?" Then yes, it 100% does, and the answer is NO.

In other words, when the object is "but mah FREE SPEECH!" then the answer is "shut up, fascist."

It looks like the people the author complains about are pretty intolerant, and they promote hate speech by calling the people they disagree with Nazis. So following the paradox of tolerance, they are the ones who should be banned, right?

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