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Toleration is an impressive virtue that’s worth reviving
- quantified 4y agoThe intolerant generally win, because they want one thing and the tolerant can handle that thing and the absence of the other things. If only the tolerant could get as passionate and engaged as the intolerant.
- cranky908canuck 4y agoSeems to me that the cited article is off on the wrong foot. Solution to this is "Tolerance is not a moral precept, it's a peace treaty". Link below. Quick search, this doesn't look like where this was originally published. https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376 https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
- cc101 4y agoToleration of extremism by main-stream Americans allowed extremist attitudes in America to grow to the point where they threaten democracy. Expressing a negative opinion of others is not necessarily bad. It can be helpful and sometimes necessary. If you assume I mean either conservative or liberal extremism, then you are reading something that is not in this comment.
- bediger4000 4y agoHard pass. Tolerating shifting the Overton Window is what got us here in the firsts place. Instead of tolerating, we need to bluntly state when someone crosses the line and why.