You can measure the level of intolerance in a society by whether you can say that there are things that are true, but that you can't say. Every society I know of has had them. When the fact that yours has them becomes one of them, you've reached level 2.
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When the police gasses and beats peaceful protestors for saying what is true, what level of intolerance is that?
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How about when black scholars spend the better part of three decades articulating empirically-measurable injustices in the judicial system, and getting uniformly disregarded by the white political establishment? What level of intolerance is that?
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Hmph. I'm no venture capital expert, but this doesn't seem like a great metric then.
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