California neo-Nazi trying to crowdfund tour of city council meetings to provoke free speech lawsuit

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A tolerant society tolerates everything but intolerance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

You don't even need to cite the paradox of tolerance. Explicit threats are already deemed not to be covered by the First Amendment. It's pretty hard to argue that hate speech is not an explicit threat.

Its not even a paradox really. Tolerance is a social contract. If a party violates it through intolerance they are no longer covered by this mutual agreement.

Agreed, but I'm not sure what a better name for the concept would be and a lot of people really need to understand it.

I am so sick of assholes saying, "you lefties are supposed to be tolerant!" when called out on their bigotry.

I’d probably just rename it more descriptively: The Contract of Tolerance