I used to frequent a site that I have abandoned because it turned into the posters on the left shutting down any opinions from the right with these sorts of accusations. If they didn't accuse you of "sealioning" it was "gaslighting" or "whataboutism". When they got challenged on their intolerance, they would counter with "the paradox of tolerence"; which basically says it's okay for so-called tolerant people to squelch what they define as intolerance.
Except that's not at all what the paradox of tolerance actually says. The people the original essay warns about are those who refuse to argue in good faith and shut down debate instead, i.e. exactly the ones who now shrill "paradox of tolerance!"
It is complete bullshit.
I used to frequent a site that I have abandoned because it turned into the posters on the left shutting down any opinions from the right with these sorts of accusations. If they didn't accuse you of "sealioning" it was "gaslighting" or "whataboutism". When they got challenged on their intolerance, they would counter with "the paradox of tolerence"; which basically says it's okay for so-called tolerant people to squelch what they define as intolerance.
Except that's not at all what the paradox of tolerance actually says. The people the original essay warns about are those who refuse to argue in good faith and shut down debate instead, i.e. exactly the ones who now shrill "paradox of tolerance!"