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It has been a little while now that this fledgling community has been around and it remains one of my favorite stories about communities. A splinter of a much larger community took it upon themselves to challenge the rest and make a move to a new home. Shedding the shackles that were being placed on them was a bold move, but one that has been fantastic.
The community here is great, but here is my question. Overall, we are amazingly tolerant of others, of the choices they make, and of their beliefs. I would then be curious, if we are such a tolerant group, how do we address intolerance in our ranks? I recently came across what I can only say filled me with pity and sadness. I find it saddening that in this day and age, and especially in this group, there are still such hate-filled people.
But this poses a question: how does a group that is tolerant deal with intolerance within it's ranks? Does our acceptance of others extend to accepting someone that has thoughts and beliefs which are far from the norm within this community, or is there a limit placed on how far from our own values a member of the community may be?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by cbiltcliffe on Sunday April 13 2014, @07:50PM
Absolutely. I find it amusing that he gets modded troll, but the responder who called him a "redneck piece of excrement", gets modded insightful.
If you refuse to tolerate views like this guy has, which may be absolutely legitimate in his experience, you're not tolerant, you're politically correct.
There's a huge difference between the two.
If you want to claim that everybody should be politically correct, fine go ahead and do it. But don't do it under the guise of tolerance.
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Monday April 14 2014, @11:54AM
To be fair, the description "redneck piece of excrement" may be accurate. My understanding is that "redneck" is something you choose to be, a particular world-view, rather than something you have no power to change and is thus a fair target for criticism. Correct me if I'm wrong, by all means.
Intolerance of people's choices and views is fine. Intolerance of things they can't change, like race or gender, isn't. Does that really need to be stated in 2014?
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
(Score: 1) by cbiltcliffe on Saturday April 19 2014, @08:34PM
Well, I read the original post before it was apparently deleted. He wasn't ranting about someone being a certain race. He was ranting about most people he saw from that race being lazy. Whether that's true or not is entirely up for debate, but it's certainly something the target of his scorn could change.
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Sunday April 20 2014, @09:03AM
"Most people of [certain race] are lazy" is pretty much the definition of prejudice.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
(Score: 1) by monster on Tuesday April 15 2014, @07:25AM
Just a remark, since I don't know the details (the linked journal seems to have been deleted): A trolling post may correctly be moderated "Troll", but that doesn't mean that any reply should also be moderated that way. In this case it looks like it could have been moderated as "Flamebait" because of the name calling, but is always name calling Flamebait? Bad etiquette, sure, but I'm not sure about the other.