"Tolerance" is a socially constructed concept used as a mode of power to define the limits of what is acceptable, how pliable normative ideas and values are, or aren't. Wendy Brown has a significant critique of the concept - "Regulating Aversion".
"Free speech" is similarly a power ploy that assumes opinion and knowledge are interchangeable, and that socially constructed bigotry is the same thing as critiques of structural inequalities (e.g., that racist or anti-Semitic sentiments can be shared equally with critiques of white privilege)...
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