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We Need to Be More Intolerant

The case for drawing hard lines around people who refuse to draw any themselves.

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André Figueira
Apr 10, 2026
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Tolerance has a death wish, and it’s self-inflicted.

If you tolerate everything without limit, you’ll eventually be consumed by the very forces you chose not to confront. The intolerant don’t play by the same rules. They exploit openness as a vector because it’s useful to them. They use free speech to argue against free speech. They use democratic platfo…

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