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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: 2) by frojack on Sunday April 13 2014, @10:53PM
To be fair, I thought Ethanol was purposely trolling on a thread about trolling [soylentnews.org], more as a demonstration of trolling than anything else.
I attributed no real ill-intent to the post, assuming he was just playing the troll. Although replying to Ethanol is risking a rage rant in the best of times, I didn't think it warranted a reply at the time.
Reading his Journal, I'm tempted to believe him when he says:
However, Ethanol isn't the only example that could be found here on Soylent.
Almost every post has a few people that try to turn every issue into a anti-Conservative rant. This is a remarkably juvenile view point that says more about the poster than conservatives. I often attribute such sentiments to youthful inexperience: "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." (A quote [quoteinvestigator.com] that has been around since at least 1875 in various forms and languages).
People should offer citations to back up their claims, and refrain from too much name calling. It seldom helps.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Kell on Monday April 14 2014, @12:07AM
OT - I feel that a more accurate way of phrasing it would be "If you're not conservative by 35, you have no money". Conservatism as a political force (rather than as a cultural force) is tied to money, in my experience. Big business, brokerages, assets trading, resource extraction and so on all support and prosper from conservative politics. Rather obviously, those who have the money wish to keep it. Those who don't have money (typically including the young) would like some of that money either directly, or through improved opportunities to get and keep it for themselves. Hence, large support for Liberal politics amongst the poor.
It seems like IT tech sites are a perfect place for young poor people and wealthy entrepreneurs to collide. I suspect we see more anti-conservative screeds because wealthy people tend to have less to complain about...
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