Editing Totalizing Ideologies (section)

=== Pluralism Requires Self-Protection ===

Weinstein argues that a truly pluralistic society must '''deny pluralism to anti-pluralist ideologies'''. He summarizes this position as:

:''"Pluralism for pluralists."''

In this view, it is not paradoxical—but rather '''definitional'''—that pluralism cannot tolerate ideologies that seek to extinguish it. This updates and operationalizes Karl Popper's ''paradox of tolerance'' by rejecting the idea that extending pluralism to all views, including totalitarian ones, is coherent or sustainable.

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|content=To remain pluralistic, a society is forced to deny pluralism to all '''totalizing ideologies''', despite its instinct to extend it.

My claim is that there is no 'paradox' here. This is fundamentally what pluralism means. Extending pluralism to that which seeks to destroy pluralism is not pluralism.

It just MEANS "Pluralism for pluralists." It doesn't mean "Dear totalists, let us invite you in to destroy us."
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