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Tolerance Is Not A Moral Precept.
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.
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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Agnes' Law:
Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 30, @12:46AM
I don't know how you define "equal opportunity". I know for damned sure that giving a position to a black person, when there are white, Latino, Asian, and Native Americans better qualified, is NOT "equal opportunity". It is only "equal opportunity" when the black guy gets the position, because he/she is the most qualified candidate. The converse situations are all true as well - it is only "equal opportunity" when the Native American gets the position, because he is the most qualified for that position.
If you have a shred of honesty, you'll admit that I've always wanted the most qualified person in any position, and I don't give a damn what race/culture/ethnicity that person might be.
You're really hung up on that 20 million dead. Maybe it's past time for you to read that entire discussion. A progressive suggested that it might be time to go to war against conservatives. Put it all in context. Our last civil war cost .8 million American's lives - officially. I don't think all bodies were counted, but the official number is .8 million.
If there is another civil war in the US, there WILL BE many millions dead.
And, I certainly hope that most are progressives. The child groomers. The abortion rights people. The guys who feel they are justified competing in women's sports. The dumb sons of bitches who vote for Senile Joe.
Do you think the Catholic Church would accept me back into the fold? LOL - certainly you know the origin of that para-quote.
BTW - progressive isn't a race. Fuckwits on the left/progressive side of things want to call everything racism these days. Are you another fuckwit? Progressive is a mental disease, not a race.