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What's What Is This Idea of Repressing Tolerance?
Tolerance, or pure tolerance, has essentially become an illiberal and reactionary value. The primary function of the value of tolerance is to suppress progressive forces by giving free rein to what he calls regressive forces. So you can see how powerful this idea is in that it exists in unaltered form as a mem in the culture right now.