I believe this is an example of a “straw man” argument.
First you mischaracterize OP’s claim – basically “tolerance of the intolerant leads to the intolerant gaining power and not being tolerant” becomes “murder all who disagree”. Then you use sarcasm to knock down the straw man you built (because of course murdering all who disagree is bad).
It’s more a criticism of the rampant idea I see floating around on Lemmy that people that hold harmful political views should be executed. What does “intolerance” look like?
No, let’s just murder anyone whose skin colour I personally hate.
The difference is, your scenario is made up, and the scenario I described happened a lot
Oh, I have just escaped Russia, not going back there any time soon, thank you. Still, you are getting jailed and killed there for openly expressing very particular sort of ideas, which is very different from jailing and killing everyone from different ethnicity indiscriminately
Let’s just murder anyone who doesn’t agree with us. This will surely lead to an orderly, civilized society.
I believe this is an example of a “straw man” argument.
First you mischaracterize OP’s claim – basically “tolerance of the intolerant leads to the intolerant gaining power and not being tolerant” becomes “murder all who disagree”. Then you use sarcasm to knock down the straw man you built (because of course murdering all who disagree is bad).
It’s more a criticism of the rampant idea I see floating around on Lemmy that people that hold harmful political views should be executed. What does “intolerance” look like?
No, let’s just murder anyone whose skin colour I personally hate.
The difference is, your scenario is made up, and the scenario I described happened a lot
You don’t think anyone has been murdered for having the wrong ideas?
Have you ever heard of the Cambodian genocide?
Go to Russia or North Korea and start saying things the government doesn’t agree with. I’m sure you’ll be fine.
Oh, I have just escaped Russia, not going back there any time soon, thank you. Still, you are getting jailed and killed there for openly expressing very particular sort of ideas, which is very different from jailing and killing everyone from different ethnicity indiscriminately