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Uninterested != intolerant You can scream your opinion on topic X all day long, but no one has to listen. That doesn't make them intolerant.
by NLips 8y ago
Uninterested != intolerant
You can scream your opinion on topic X all day long, but no one has to listen. That doesn't make them intolerant.
- mieseratte 8y agoThey're not interested because they want an echo-chamber. This is just intolerance, aka bigotry, with extra steps. It wasn't as if the man's writings were just panned. It was a typical social justice morality crusade.
- sgift 8y ago> This is just intolerance, aka bigotry, with extra steps. Here we have the classic case of interpreting a definition so loose that it gets useless. Everyone is intolerant of something. I'm intolerant of murderers, so by that textbook definition I'm a bigot, but then everyone would be a bigot and we end up with a synonym for "human" - Is that helpful in a discussion?
- humanrebar 8y agoYou are equating being pro-life and unconventionally anti-execution with being a murderer.
- mieseratte 8y agoNo, this isn't a case of that. This is the classic Social Justice Jihadi pillorying someone with an opinion that isn't on the approved list. The man was a writer for a week and was removed because he committed a thought crime. You're just being needlessly obtuse.
- weberc2 8y agoHe was employed for what, a week? How did The Atlantic's readership find him uninteresting in that amount of time? And anyway, his hiring made quite an uproar with many of the Atlantic's readership, suggesting they were _very_ interested, but also _very_ intolerant to the end that he was fired. The "uninterested" line doesn't float.