Here’s what so many people don’t understand about tolerance.
Criticizing someone, refusing to engage with somebody’s ideas or debate them—that isn’t intolerance.
This is intolerance.
Criticizing someone, refusing to engage with somebody’s ideas or debate them—that isn’t intolerance.
This is intolerance.
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No conservative who ever whined about liberal intolerance has ever experienced actual intolerance.
They've perhaps experienced criticism, distaste, anger, disgust, even hate.
All these as a result of ideas they've expressed or promoted or supported.
They've perhaps experienced criticism, distaste, anger, disgust, even hate.
All these as a result of ideas they've expressed or promoted or supported.
But what pharmacists refuse to give conservatives meds *because* they're conservative?
Who seeks to disenfranchise them of the vote?
Or to nullify their marriages?
Or to block them from adoption?
Or to enshrine discrimination as a protected religious practice?
And so on.
Who seeks to disenfranchise them of the vote?
Or to nullify their marriages?
Or to block them from adoption?
Or to enshrine discrimination as a protected religious practice?
And so on.
Existance and equality under the law is not something you have to earn.
*That’s* tolerance. It’s the base line.
Tolerance is the lowest rung on justice’s ladder.
*That’s* tolerance. It’s the base line.
Tolerance is the lowest rung on justice’s ladder.
Tolerance is the medicine suggested for those people you can’t stand, so as to continue, through your distaste, to pursue justice for them.
We *tolerate* the KKK.
By this we mean we don't kill them or lock them up simply because we despise their grotesque bigotry. They shouldn't starve. Their children should have a good education. They should receive healthcare. They're entitled to due process.
*That's* tolerance.
By this we mean we don't kill them or lock them up simply because we despise their grotesque bigotry. They shouldn't starve. Their children should have a good education. They should receive healthcare. They're entitled to due process.
*That's* tolerance.
Tolerance is being willing to allow space for people to exist, even though we despise them. It’s the very basic acknowledgement that other people, in fact, exist.
If I feel as if I’m being asked to be tolerant too much, I might want to think about that.
If I feel as if I’m being asked to be tolerant too much, I might want to think about that.
Suppose I am resentful, because I am constantly being urged toward tolerance for an ever-increasing number of groups of people.
Rather than complaining about political correctness, it might be wise to reflect on what that might say about me, that I despise so many people, who must therefore be tolerated, and that I chafe so frequently against this, the most basic of justice’s requests.
It’s a pretty good hint that I’m an intolerant person if neutral reminders that other people exist strike me as aggressions requiring retaliation.
If the existence of an all-female Ghostbusters movie is an aggression.
If a store greeter’s simple ‘happy holidays’ is an attack on Christmas, a salvo in a larger war.
If hearing a foreign language in the grocery store strips me of my very country.
If a store greeter’s simple ‘happy holidays’ is an attack on Christmas, a salvo in a larger war.
If hearing a foreign language in the grocery store strips me of my very country.
If a gay marriage somehow threatens my straight one.
If a turban on an airplane makes me call the stewardess over.
If it’s an imposition to be asked to remember what words people want used to refer to them.
If a turban on an airplane makes me call the stewardess over.
If it’s an imposition to be asked to remember what words people want used to refer to them.
Tolerance is what happens when we insist there is only one bucket. Those who prefer justice go in that bucket, along w/those who prefer injustice. Tolerance says all humans deserve justice grounded in unconditional respect for basic humanity.
But we don't have to listen to you.
But we don't have to listen to you.
Tolerance is something meant for unjust *humans.* Tolerance is no virtue when applied to unjust *ideas.*
Tolerance doesn't reserve you a space in the campus auditorium, or on the talk show couch.
Tolerance doesn't reserve you a space in the campus auditorium, or on the talk show couch.
What unjust people who complain about intolerance are actually seeking isn't tolerance for their beings as humans.
What they want is consideration, acceptance and celebration of their intolerant ideas.
What they want is consideration, acceptance and celebration of their intolerant ideas.
However, if I'm a person promoting injustice, I can’t have consideration, acceptance and celebration; not from those who prioritize justice over order, anyway.
I will have tolerance from them.
It’s not much, but it’s significantly more than I afford others.
I will have tolerance from them.
It’s not much, but it’s significantly more than I afford others.
“So much for the tolerant left,” is the sneer you see, from someone who's just expressed some opinion harmful to human dignity, who's been met with opposition, or perhaps even called some nasty name as a result.
It can be offensive to be called a nasty name, I know. So, in the interests of tolerance and justice, to any reading this who have been called nasty names simply b/c of deeply held beliefs that other people should lose access to equal treatment under the law, let me say this:
Tough titty, assholes.
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See? Now, THAT'S tolerance.
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See? Now, THAT'S tolerance.
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