Intolerance - Blog Posts
"I am deeply concerned over the impact it might have on our community," says Rep. Scott DesJarlais.
An appeal to my fellow Tennesseeans: Please, please, PLEASE stop electing people like this to represent us!
If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily
Stephen Fry (via elledark)
Two useful additions: First: The Paradox Of Tolerance. Per Karl Popper: “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law...“
Second: this rather instructive video by Innuendo Studios. (Transcript for the reading-inclined.) It succinctly encapsulates the origins and character of modern Conservatism, and how contrary to all assertions, intolerance appears to very much be an intended feature and not a bug.
Conservatives will be like “Why are you holding me accountable for my bigoted beliefs? Whatever happened to tolerance???”