Someone doesn’t understand the principle while at the same time lecturing the rest of us.
What Franks does not understand is that the paradox applies perfectly to the bigoted, intolerant nastiness that he is indulging in here. No reasonable person would tolerate such behaviour. Interestingly, if you try to find the tweet in question, it no longer seems to be there. I wonder who told him to delete it in the hope that it hadn’t yet been noticed? Still, Keiron Franks reminding us yet again, there there is nothing remotely liberal about the illiberal undemocrats. So, who not to vote for, it would seem.
I’m quite prepared to tolerate people with strange ideas as long as they harm no-one else. A consequence is that they should not be discriminated against. I do not feel obliged to respect them though.
Unfortunately, harm is precisely what they are doing.
Once, ‘as long as they harm no one else’ was a watchword but now they expect me to ignore reality in favour of their insanity, or be monstered into recanting like Macy Gray.
No more. Here’s where I draw the line. And I won’t recant. Ever.
Likewise. No apology, no justification and no explanation.
Left hate: Live and Let Live; Do No Harm
Yet more evidence that the “Liberal Democrats” don’t know what their name means. Or the word “tolerance”, apparently. (There is no paradox; you tolerate what is tolerable. We tolerate vociferous disagreement and peaceful protest; we don’t tolerate harrassment or paramilitary armies. And if some people find certain words intolerable, that says infinitely more about them than their alleged “oppressors”.)
A “liberal” party that occasionally strayed from the path would be one thing, but this lot seem to be willfully authoritarian. It’s almost as if most of them are really socialists, isn’t it?
Given that he deleted the tweet, I’m assuming that someone in the party probably realises this and that he’s giving the game away.
Kemi Badenoch: