Letter 8

Trying to create a civil society with bigots is like trying to make pastries out of poop. No matter how skilled and determined you are, you will always have some variant of a handful of feces.

I am not interested in just a bit of tolerance for fascists for the same reason that I'm not going to make cinnamon buns with just a bit of turd.

Whose rights will you compromise? Fascists must have victims to oppress. It is a necessary condition of maintaining their power. Who are you going to sacrifice to their vengeful sadism? How many?

And when you compromise a single person's rights to get along, you are conniving at their oppression just to make yourself feel open minded and tolerant. When you decide that allowing bigots to discriminate against anyone, for the sake of compromise, you have allied yourself, morally, with the oppressor.

You cannot embrace them without getting their filth on you. It's not possible.