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Tolerant: willing to accept behavior and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them.[1] Intolerant: disappr

by slg 4y ago

Tolerant: willing to accept behavior and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them.[1] Intolerant: disapproving of or refusing to accept ideas or ways of behaving that are different from your own.[2] These are the definitions from Cambridge Dictionary and show these words are direct opposites of each other. We can look at it like boolean logic. True == !False !True == False NULL != True NULL != False NULL != !True NULL != !False Tolerant == Not Intolerant Not Tolerant == Intolerant (the literal definition of the word) NULL != Tolerant NULL != Intolerant NULL != Not Tolerant NULL != Not Intolerant The Musk example is not "not tolerant". It is NULL. It is making no comment about Nazism. The Babylon Bee article was not a NULL value because it was directly commenting on the acceptance of trans people. [1] - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/tolerant https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/toler... [2] - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/intolerant https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/intol...

throwawaylinux 4y ago
So you don't know what tolerant means. A possible alternative position is tolerance for others' words and definitions, and this was the mainstream progressive position up to about 10 years ago. That is not using your creative definition of the word tolerance, but the common one and the one which was used by progressives when they advocated for that position. So there's an answer for your question I originally answered.
- slg 4y ago
  I cited a dictionary to get that definition. What is your definition of tolerance and where are you getting it from?
  - throwawaylinux 4y ago
    That's easily explained: citing a dictionary definition doesn't mean you know the meaning or how to apply it in a context. The man of the year award is not intolerant, just like giving a trans woman a woman of the year is not intolerant toward biological women who believe they are not the same gender as a trans woman. Tolerance does not mean forbidding all disagreement and satire. But I am glad you have understood that a comment is not necessarily tolerant or intolerant. That's great progress, it took a while, but I applaud the effort and persistence. Good luck with the rest of the journey.

by slg 4y ago

throwawaylinux 4y ago

So you don't know what tolerant means. A possible alternative position is tolerance for others' words and definitions, and this was the mainstream progressive position up to about 10 years ago. That is not using your creative definition of the word tolerance, but the common one and the one which was used by progressives when they advocated for that position. So there's an answer for your question I originally answered.

slg 4y ago
I cited a dictionary to get that definition. What is your definition of tolerance and where are you getting it from?
- throwawaylinux 4y ago
  That's easily explained: citing a dictionary definition doesn't mean you know the meaning or how to apply it in a context. The man of the year award is not intolerant, just like giving a trans woman a woman of the year is not intolerant toward biological women who believe they are not the same gender as a trans woman. Tolerance does not mean forbidding all disagreement and satire. But I am glad you have understood that a comment is not necessarily tolerant or intolerant. That's great progress, it took a while, but I applaud the effort and persistence. Good luck with the rest of the journey.