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We do not need to be tolerant of intolerance.
by Methusalah 13y ago
We do not need to be tolerant of intolerance.
- pete_b 13y agoYou sound quite intolerant.
- Methusalah 13y agoIntolerant of people who seek to use our government to oppress minorities due to their own ignorance and hatred? Definitely.
- Solarsail 13y agoTo not be tolerant of intolerance is to be more intolerant than any religious fundamentalist or extremist.
- Methusalah 13y agoOh right, I forgot how religious fundamentalists and extremists are universally praised for their ability to accept contradictory views and lifestyles! What a powerful argument!
- Solarsail 13y agoI wasn't implying that they were tolerant. Only that intolerance of intolerance, as it were, is one of the most extreme form on intolerance around. Taken to its extreme, it is intolerant of a very large swath of human thought. Religious fundies are mostly just intolerant of things contradicting their own religion, not stuff that's irrelevant to it.