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Why Tolerate Intolerance?
“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.” - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A while ago, around December, I went to have Christmas dinner at my Mother's parent's house. After the food, crackers, and hats were all finished with my Grandmother leaned over the table, rested a hand on my Mother's arm, and said - completely out of the blue - "I brought you up to respect other people's beliefs."
Now, as this somewhat hushed and accusatory utterance was so unexpected and random, my Mother was a little confused. I was too.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"You're always laughing at religious people, it's not nice."
Now my Mother knew what she was going on about. She crossed her arms.
"Mother, I refuse to 'respect' intolerant views. Why would I?"
"It's just not nice, Victoria. My Father always said-"
At this point I chimed in... (Read more of this post)
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I've posted this today (and not on a Friday) so that these posts can catch up with when I'm actually writing them.
The next one will be this Friday, as usual.
:P
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Comment by Carnun on January 31, 2013 at 3:35pm -
I'm afraid I don't entirely understand your comment... Sorry.
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Comment by zrdm on January 31, 2013 at 7:05am -
you tolerate intolerance because it is the norm. The world is ruled primarily by race hate, then religious fanaticism. Ask if this hill is worth dying on, if it isnt surrender it; if it is then be prepared to commit acts that violate your ethical and moral feelings to hold it.
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Comment by Carnun on January 30, 2013 at 5:13pm
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Yeah, me too.
Sorry if I wasn't too clear before :)
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Comment by Marianne on January 30, 2013 at 5:12pm -
As Adriana pointed out, if intolerance follows by harming people then I will take a stand against it. Also, I guess I will become intolerant of such people....
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Comment by Carnun on January 30, 2013 at 5:04pm
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No, just one.
One dedicated enough that I'm going to dedicate an entire post to him. A sort of 'Comment Commentary', if you like :)
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Comment by Adriana on January 30, 2013 at 5:00pm -
You get a few religious people commenting there, from what I saw. I quickly skimmed the comments, not read in depth.
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Comment by Carnun on January 30, 2013 at 4:43pm
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Did you read any of the other comments?
Some are... Interesting.
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Comment by Carnun on January 30, 2013 at 4:42pm
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Ah, great. Please do :)
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Comment by Adriana on January 30, 2013 at 4:40pm
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Will post my comment on your blog, too
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Comment by Adriana on January 30, 2013 at 4:39pm
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LOL! It's hard to start a fight around here :-)
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