Yeah I know about the “paradox of tolerance.” It’s not a particularly profound or helpful way of viewing things. Bottom line is you fancy yourself the good guy, so intolerance of bad people is justified so long as you’re the one making the value judgments.
It’s pretty reductive to just label these two groups as “tolerant” and “intolerant.” If the tolerant group is comprised entirely of
philes, then of course we advance the side of those intolerant anti-
philes.
But assuming the two sides are morally equivalent (that is, it’s purely a cultural clash), then it just becomes a question of how important each side’s respective values are. It doesn’t matter who “should be advanced,” because all that matters is who advances. If your values aren’t important enough to preserve, then assimilate. If they are, you better get ready to fight or run. Jews resisted assimilation for thousands of years in spite of momentous pressure to do so, because their ethnic identity was that important to them. Kurds have resisted similar pressure in the Levant. These people have paid a heavy price, but apparently it was worth it to them. The Jews now have their own nation state. The Kurds, not so much. That’s just the way it goes. History makes no guarantees about your survival.
Again, that’s terribly reductive. There are countless reasons diverse people cannot co-exist in the same space. Lumping them all under “intolerance” just shows you don’t care about other peoples’ concerns.
I don’t know, maybe go and ask somebody who wants a strict hierarchical society.
What do you not understand about this? Cohesive societies are cohesive
because they don’t include everyone on the planet. If you haven’t noticed, the terrestrial Earth is carved up into hundreds of tiny nation states, of which very few are diverse in any sense of the word. There’s a reason for that. The diverse peoples of the world have diverse worldviews. Your refrain of cultural pluralism rings hollow in all but a handful of Western countries, and it is quickly losing support there too. So are you gonna lecture the Indians on their caste system? You gonna lecture the Chinese about inclusion or tolerance? Or did you save all your virtuosity for my home country?
