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: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 30, @03:40AM
You lie, and you know it. The US government and all it's contractors have had hiring quotas for decades. Major corporations with or without government contracts observe those quotas. Even small businesses work to meet the quotas. Minorities often get the position, when better qualified people are available.
Let's talk about children who live in inner city neighborhoods and have to fear for their safety going to and from school. Let's talk about children who might have a parent in prison, where the other parent struggles to pay the bills. Let's talk about children who attend public schools in those inner city neighborhoods, where the quality of education is substantially inferior to wealthier areas, which diminishes the opportunity for those children to attend college and to be qualified for those jobs. By the numbers, the children living in conditions like that are disproportionately Black. They don't have equal opportunity, not even close. That is the lasting effect of segregation, decades after it was outlawed. There most certainly is not equal opportunity.
Doctor Ben Carson would disagree with you. Amazing, the things a person can do, if he just refuses to join the gangs.
Those are not the words of a sane person, nor are they the words of a person who has a firm grasp on reality.
I have a very firm grasp on reality. We don't live in a fairy tale world. Progressive/socialist/collectivist/Marxist/leftist people like Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot have demonstrated time and again what kind of world your fairy tales lead to. All that kumbaya bullshit leads to mass murder. One of the reasons that the Second Amendment is so very important.
But you keep telling those lies. Keep calling me a Nazi, or fascist, or whatever.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 30, @03:40AM
You lie, and you know it. The US government and all it's contractors have had hiring quotas for decades. Major corporations with or without government contracts observe those quotas. Even small businesses work to meet the quotas. Minorities often get the position, when better qualified people are available.
Doctor Ben Carson would disagree with you. Amazing, the things a person can do, if he just refuses to join the gangs.
I have a very firm grasp on reality. We don't live in a fairy tale world. Progressive/socialist/collectivist/Marxist/leftist people like Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot have demonstrated time and again what kind of world your fairy tales lead to. All that kumbaya bullshit leads to mass murder. One of the reasons that the Second Amendment is so very important.
But you keep telling those lies. Keep calling me a Nazi, or fascist, or whatever.