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A lesson of World War II should be that a civilized society must be one that defends diversity of belief; if so, we seem to be becoming less civilized. Combining intolerance with the power of the weaponry born of contemporary technology is producing a lethal brew. We must learn the lessons of history lest we put our whole civilization at risk.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Civilization #Intolerance

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A lesson of World War II should be that a civilized society must be one that defends diversity of belief; if so, we seem to be becoming less civilized. Combining intolerance with the power of the weaponry born of contemporary technology is producing a lethal brew. We must learn the lessons of history lest we put our whole civilization at risk.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Civilization #Intolerance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #LakeSantaFe #Florida

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@FediTips @the_wiz

I don't like being in an information bubble, myself. But I recall a quote about #Nazis and #Fascism (I do not recall where I heard it):

"The only thing that a tolerant society must not tolerate is #intolerance ."

There are a few things that should never be allowed a forum for discussion, because the uneducated and bigots do not debate; they merely jump straight to hate. Along the way, they pull others into their darkness.

It's not easy to walk the fine line between #FreeSpeech and justifiable #censorship , but we must be constantly straddling that line and holding onto it firmly.

We do not give pornography to children or spread it on social media. Nor should we give that same social media space to Nazis and hate.

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Letter (1940-01-09) to William Allan Neilson

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

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We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.
—Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
#tolerance #intolerance

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, 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.
—Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
#tolerance #intolerance

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@isbla @davidaugust
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A sticker saying abilosh ice
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I don’t think that ice is the only problem.

Abolish #anti-woke
Abolish #intolerance
Abolish #hate
Abolish #inequality

Embrace #diversity
Embrace #humility
Embrace #kindness
Embrace #love
Embrace #grace
Embrace the #gift and #experience we all #share

No one can do it but you so please consider

I mean if the congress government needs explained why I would be happy to break down the math on these subjects economically.

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@gooba42 @Okanogen @Scubyw @noelreports

There is no #freedom in #hateSpeech

#Speech meant to destroy the freedom of others is not #freeSpeech

All the suffering we've been through, and all the suffering that lies before us, is nothing but a litany we must learn from. It will not end until we finally understand that the #FirstAmendment does not protect hate speech, as a simple logical consequence of what freedom truly means

#Tolerance of #intolerance only leads to the death of tolerance

A quotation from George Orwell

The early Bolsheviks may have been angels or demons, according as one chooses to regard them, but at any rate they were not sensible men. They were not introducing a Wellsian Utopia but a Rule of the Saints, which, like the English Rule of the Saints, was a military despotism enlivened by witchcraft trials.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/76807/

A lesson of World War II should be that a civilized society must be one that defends diversity of belief; if so, we seem to be becoming less civilized. Combining intolerance with the power of the weaponry born of contemporary technology is producing a lethal brew. We must learn the lessons of history lest we put our whole civilization at risk.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Civilization #Intolerance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

Blue MAGA alternative to Nazi infested shiTwotter have increased it's assault on pro Palestinian accounts by labeling them as "intolerant" with the description:
"INTOLERANCE
Discriminatiin against protected groups".

For them IDF is a protected group and criticizing them and exposing their war crimes goes against their policies.

#BlueSky #Fascism #Censorship #BlueMaga #WTAF #Intolerance #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #SocialMedia

@palestine@a.gup.pe @palestine@lemmy.ml @israel

#intolerance : refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like

- French: intolérance

- German: die Intoleranz

- Italian: intolleranza

- Portuguese: intolerância

- Spanish: intolerancia

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