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American culture seems to have become deeply intolerant of differences of opinion. Everything is now a scorched-earth, winner takes all battle, with no attempt
by jf- 8y ago
American culture seems to have become deeply intolerant of differences of opinion. Everything is now a scorched-earth, winner takes all battle, with no attempt at compromise or de-escalation. Everyone is a combatant, every word and action is seized upon to be weaponised. I’m not talking about the debacle currently unfolding in the senate here either, I mean the entire atmosphere is unbelievably toxic and has been for some time, and on both sides.
Americans are actively dehumanising each other. Everyone needs to calm down and stop hating or this is going to end very badly.
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- maxxxxx 8y agoTotally agree. Everybody is out to be angry and punish somebody.
- unique_id 8y agoIt's liberals that are intolerant of other peoples views (or so the studies say).
- obscurantist 8y agoThose studies have generally shown liberals to be only somewhat less tolerant, as an aggregate. Most liberals are still tolerant, as are most conservatives.
- unique_id 8y agoThe difference is rather extreme: http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2018/05/a-survey-of-dartmouths-political-and-free-speech-climate http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2018/05/a-survey-of-dart... What is intolerance anyway? It's not believing that a certain behavior is wrong. That's not intolerance. Intolerance is shouting people down because you don't agree with them or creating a hostile environment for opposing viewpoints. That's a behavior that reminds me of one side much more than the other. I'm not putting blame here. One side just takes politics more seriously, for now.
- lovich 8y ago>"I'm not putting blame here" You just called out one side as worse and then try to claim you're not putting blame? That's not really believeable. If we're just throwing out reasons too, then how about how the Republican party decided to not compromise on anything anymore after Obama was elected? When one side refuses to compromise on anything, the other side can only lose by attempting to compromise. This situation is the only possible result from turning politics into a verbal form of total war
- unique_id 8y agoI've been flagged four times now for correcting the person I responded to on who is acting intolerant. That's an example of intolerance. Liberals are very intolerant, as the studies show. > You just called out one side as worse and then try to claim you're not putting blame? I said one side takes politics more seriously, that's what I said. But sure, if you believe in democracy then their behavior isn't exactly conducive to a well functioning democracy, now is it? > When one side refuses to compromise on anything That's hilarious. The republican party is the democratic party, just 10 years behind. It compromises on everything. The beautiful Republican party features the likes of marxists turned neocons because they took an interest in Israel (or so Wikipedia says).
- lovich 8y agohttps://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/the-gops-no-compromise-pledge-044311 https://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/the-gops-no-compromis... >Here’s John Boehner, the likely speaker if Republicans take the House, offering his plans for Obama’s agenda: “We're going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.” It was a public and documented plan by the Republican party to not compromise on a single issue with the Obama administration. You're evidence that liberals are less tolerant is also a study of a single college campus. Bring some more evidence if you are going to make claims that have gone against the past 10 years of public discourse
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