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 Wednesday May 03, @10:49AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday May 03, @10:49AM (#1304468)
But you wonder why I sometimes reply to his comments - or yours for that matter. Because if they go unchallenged they become the 'truth' as we witnessed a few months ago. Anybody can create an account using any email address that they choose - but several people asked when we we going to allow new members to join? We have never stopped them. They had simply read statements made by an AC claiming that we had. All lies, of course,
So, counter-lies, or alternative facts? I know from personal experience that if you attempt to sign up for a SoylentNews account using any of the well-known anonymous email services, you will be taken for aristarchus and banned before you can even get started. If you utilize other security services, such as TOR or a VPN, your IP will be banned, your account punished, and very bad mojo sent your way. SN has become a toxic website, full of hives of scum and villiany and racism and racist libertarianism. When are you going to allow new members to join? When will the emergency be over, Mr. Janrinok?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03, @10:49AM
So, counter-lies, or alternative facts? I know from personal experience that if you attempt to sign up for a SoylentNews account using any of the well-known anonymous email services, you will be taken for aristarchus and banned before you can even get started. If you utilize other security services, such as TOR or a VPN, your IP will be banned, your account punished, and very bad mojo sent your way. SN has become a toxic website, full of hives of scum and villiany and racism and racist libertarianism. When are you going to allow new members to join? When will the emergency be over, Mr. Janrinok?