way to recognise a facist by Andrej Nikolaidis/ Limits of tolerance by Karl koper

But that's always a certain way to recognise a facist:
when he's more powerful he kills everything that's different
from him, he uses only brute force while law breaks like
glass under his boots. And then, when he loses and when
he's weak, he invokes the law and tolerance of differences.
All of a sudden, he knows by heart every single human rights
convention he broke so many times before.
Andrej Nikolaidis


Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.
If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are
intolerant,if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society
againstthe onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will
be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
— In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we
should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies;
as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep
them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be
unwise.
But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary
even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not
prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but
begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their
followersto listen to rational argument, because it is
deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use
of their fists or pistols.

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right
notto tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any
movementpreaching intolerance places itself outside the law,
and we should consider incitement to intolerance
and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should
consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to
the revival of the slave trade,as criminal.
Karl Popper,The Open Society and Its Enemies