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.
Reply to: Re:well well well
(Score: -1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 28, @11:09AM
I think you may have missed an important point in the article. Progressives are people, so they must be tolerated. Conservatives are monsters, so we need not be tolerated.
I'm going to pray that Darth Zunger and Darth Hazuki don't further alter the deal!! /sarcasm
Funny that Zunger cites Westphalia, while making a case that there can be no peace with the monsters.
There is a small chance that I'm being unfair to Zunger here. Perhaps I should find out exactly who and what he means when he talks about Nazis. Does he use the term like Antifa uses it, or does he use the term to only include genuine Nazis and neoNazis?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 28, @11:09AM
I think you may have missed an important point in the article. Progressives are people, so they must be tolerated. Conservatives are monsters, so we need not be tolerated.
I'm going to pray that Darth Zunger and Darth Hazuki don't further alter the deal!! /sarcasm
Funny that Zunger cites Westphalia, while making a case that there can be no peace with the monsters.
There is a small chance that I'm being unfair to Zunger here. Perhaps I should find out exactly who and what he means when he talks about Nazis. Does he use the term like Antifa uses it, or does he use the term to only include genuine Nazis and neoNazis?