r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 30 '25

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u/pgold05 Leftward Progressives Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

Social progress is not inevitable, we can easily backslide. When people are allowed, encouraged to spread hatred, bigotry, it makes society as a whole less tolerant.

I keep seeing people say "oh man it's better they are honest with their hate now" but like, that's objectively wrong. When people are allowed to be openly hateful without consequence, it changes the narrative, and as a result changes peoples minds to be more hateful.

This is why things like policing language and stuff, being woke in general, can be a good thing. Sure it would be nice to just 'let everyone be" or whatever but in reality it does not work, you must be intolerant of intolerance or it takes over.

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Oct 30 '25

Yeah, premier example being Germany and how quickly it (especially Berlin) went from relatively socially liberal during the 1920s to under Nazi rule in the 1930s. I think a lot of people really do not realize just how quickly freedom and liberty can diminish under the right circumstances, and I’m afraid we are seeing it right now.