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:Racism is not a touchy subject
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29, @10:06AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday April 29, @10:06AM (#1303866)
There is no such thing a "white". Race is a social construct, by slave-owning southerners, and "white" is a back-formation that only means "not-black". As in, "At least I am not." But these "whites" are, like Runaway1956, the most deplorable and recondite of the human race. Yes, they are not a separate race, more a collage of fuckwits, but since they do try to make it about race, and fail, they are idiots and assholes. Consider Runaway1956, says he's not racist, but he is a motherfucking racist through and through. So to identify, as Runaway does, as "white" and "male" (can conservatives even define what a Man is?), straight (questionable, naval service), Christian (never seen any evidence of this), conservative (not really), is to be the victim of fake news, fake victimhood, and really just fake existence. Does Runaway1956 actually exist? Or is he just a janrinok sockpuppet, a EuroCon's fantasy of an American Trump supporter? We would need something concrete, like a real name and home address, to take Runaway seriously. Otherwise, he is just khallow-quality fluff.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29, @10:06AM
There is no such thing a "white". Race is a social construct, by slave-owning southerners, and "white" is a back-formation that only means "not-black". As in, "At least I am not." But these "whites" are, like Runaway1956, the most deplorable and recondite of the human race. Yes, they are not a separate race, more a collage of fuckwits, but since they do try to make it about race, and fail, they are idiots and assholes. Consider Runaway1956, says he's not racist, but he is a motherfucking racist through and through. So to identify, as Runaway does, as "white" and "male" (can conservatives even define what a Man is?), straight (questionable, naval service), Christian (never seen any evidence of this), conservative (not really), is to be the victim of fake news, fake victimhood, and really just fake existence. Does Runaway1956 actually exist? Or is he just a janrinok sockpuppet, a EuroCon's fantasy of an American Trump supporter? We would need something concrete, like a real name and home address, to take Runaway seriously. Otherwise, he is just khallow-quality fluff.