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 Sunday May 07, @11:50AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday May 07, @11:50AM (#1305114)
Why does this keep coming up, raised by khallow? Is this what put an end to his Wingman business? The accusations of rape? (Kind of a Trumpy thing, after all) And the kangaroo court at a campus, where of course conservative young men are cancelled. More and more, I bethinks the man to be guilty, by means of a preponderance of unsolicited whinging.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07, @11:50AM
Why does this keep coming up, raised by khallow? Is this what put an end to his Wingman business? The accusations of rape? (Kind of a Trumpy thing, after all) And the kangaroo court at a campus, where of course conservative young men are cancelled. More and more, I bethinks the man to be guilty, by means of a preponderance of unsolicited whinging.