They’ll scream and bitch and moan and say we’re ruining society by taking their voting rights away and we’re minimizing and limiting the people who can be allowed to be involved in democracy… and while that’s true, it’s only to keep them from completely dismantling democracy and removing access to be involved in democracy to everyone.
So it’s like… we’ve got to stop giving them credence of that argument: No, if your politics boil down to your in-group being able to do whatever the fuck they want, the out-group getting punished, and a total rejection of science and evidence-based reasoning, you can fuck right off and don’t get a fucking vote because that’s worse than being a fucking felon. You’re some dipshit who wants to tear it all down because it doesn’t cater to your fucking fantasy world inside your head.
We need to stop tolerating it and saying “Nope, if your whole goal is to remove democracy, and this has happened enough times in history for it to be clear what’s happening, you don’t get a vote.”
Democracy never should have meant “my uneducated idiocy is just as valuable as your knowledge and education.” It’s time to put that fucking lie to bed.
It’s the paradox of tolerance again.
They’ll scream and bitch and moan and say we’re ruining society by taking their voting rights away and we’re minimizing and limiting the people who can be allowed to be involved in democracy… and while that’s true, it’s only to keep them from completely dismantling democracy and removing access to be involved in democracy to everyone.
So it’s like… we’ve got to stop giving them credence of that argument: No, if your politics boil down to your in-group being able to do whatever the fuck they want, the out-group getting punished, and a total rejection of science and evidence-based reasoning, you can fuck right off and don’t get a fucking vote because that’s worse than being a fucking felon. You’re some dipshit who wants to tear it all down because it doesn’t cater to your fucking fantasy world inside your head.
We need to stop tolerating it and saying “Nope, if your whole goal is to remove democracy, and this has happened enough times in history for it to be clear what’s happening, you don’t get a vote.”
Democracy never should have meant “my uneducated idiocy is just as valuable as your knowledge and education.” It’s time to put that fucking lie to bed.
I don’t think it’s paradoxical for a democratic society to be intolerant of people who are actively, overtly, aggressively hostile to democracy.
100% agree.
I’m just as comfortable in a universe with a big bang and black holes as this utterly manufactured paradox.
Reality is.
Ahh it smells like the good old paradox of tolerance in here