Democratic tolerance is often pressed by different tests. For instance: A neonazi
organization asks oficial permission for a public convention: Which is the correct
democratic answer? Still other questions: Must democratic laws accept every religious
association within the society that they rule? What is the right answer to questions posed by
the so-called “next day pill”? or by the proposed discussion about homosexual weddings?
Such solicitations urge reflection about the boundaries of democratic tolerance.
This work deals with a phenomenon that, though a minor one, becomes of interest when is
semiotically considered. It views transgressive activities that disturb different urban
activities which end in repression and/or punishment: “hooded guys” that dismantle the
academic order, public debtors that alter official public solemnities, students that paralyze
the city Centrum and different intrusions of the sort.
The question is not about the causes neither about solutions that can be afforded but about
the meaning of such manifestations. The aim is limited to propose a semiotic reading and
an interpretation’s exercise of these challenges or tests
Keywords:
Democratic tolerance, Transgression, Meaning of transgression
Moreno Garrido, J. (2019). Some contemporary challenges to democratic tolerance. Cuadernos Judaicos, 295–309. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8749.0.52311
