There's a sentence in the middle of the paradox of tolerance that is universally fucking ignored.

In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.

That's from the original author, Karl Popper, in the piece in which he originally defined it.

Yeah, we're past that point when it comes to the state of the US federal government, but people consistently skip or ignore that part when it comes to shit that is in a less dire state.