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The article says that other sources corroborated Zunger's account. That seems more relevant than anything about the man. "Opposing the idea of tolerance" is an
by pseudalopex 8y ago
The article says that other sources corroborated Zunger's account. That seems more relevant than anything about the man.
"Opposing the idea of tolerance" is an extremely uncharitable way to describe a piece dealing with the paradox of tolerance.
Zunger's description of 1,475 children as "missing and unaccounted for" was prompted by an Arizona Republic article that described them as "lost".[1] He was mistaken about ICE separating those particular children from their parents, but the article wasn't entirely clear about that. There was also still the question of what would happen to the children that ICE did separate from their parents.
[1] https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2018/05/22/immigration-children-separate-families-lost-kirstjen-nielson/631627002/ https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/201...
- makomk 8y agoWhile I guess it is pretty commonplace for the paradox of tolerance to be invoked these days as a way to turn intolerance into a virtue by declaring the people we dislike the intolerant ones and claiming we're somehow improving tolerance by hating them, and while taking the most shocking-sounding op-ed any of the uncountable smaller papers on the planet is willing to publish, squeezing any nuance and inconvenient details out of it, juicing it up, and blasting that idea to a global audience it wouldn't otherwise have reached is basically what social media is used for nowadays, I'm still not convinced either of those is a good or moral thing.