This is a thorough once-over giving the lie to the "conservatives'" self-serving bullshit squealing that "Butbutbutbutbut if you don't tolerate my intolerance you're a hypocrite!" The short version, as put forth in the article, is this: tolerance is a peace treaty, not a suicide pact.
Put another way, it's social technology, just like laws. It allows us, in an ever-more-connected global society, to exist and function. Like a treaty it covers those, and only those, who are party to it.
This means that if you're a genocidal fucking psychopath then no, Virginia, we do not have to "tolerate" your unhinged ramblings. You are cancer in the body politic. You have gleefully ripped your human card to shreds and dropped the pieces in an incinerator, cackling like a hyena on PCP at how you have "owned the libs." You have placed yourselves outside the treaty. We are not obligated to put up with your shit.
tl;dr: if you can't behave like a civilized human being, don't be surprised when you get treated like a rabid animal. Read and be better, or don't, it's your choice, but don't bitch when you get your find-outs.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01, @01:13AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 01, @01:13AM (#1304121)
The whole point of such trolling is to exhaust patience, attention, your willingness to communicate and to demotivate you in general. That is a reason why the otherwise idiotic and inane things they do are their first option. They don't want to communicate; they want to win.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01, @01:13AM
The whole point of such trolling is to exhaust patience, attention, your willingness to communicate and to demotivate you in general. That is a reason why the otherwise idiotic and inane things they do are their first option. They don't want to communicate; they want to win.