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: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05, @09:46AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Friday May 05, @09:46AM (#1304862)
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(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05, @09:46AM
Is this the reason Runaway never gets hired for any of those Firm Action jobs? He is disqualified through being dickless? I can see how for some jobs, that would be disqualifying, but the fact that Runaway cannot get jobs where this is not a prerequisite, suggests that he is being all reverse-discriminated because of his phallic deficiency. Look for birds nests, up in trees, Ruanway. According to the Malleum Malificarum, that is where the witches keep all the penises they have stolen. Yours might be amoung them.