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To be tolerant simply means that you are weak, and allow others to do as they wish. The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. The accusation against liberals isn't just that they're getting more and more bad names.
To be tolerant simply means that you are weak, and allow others to do as they wish. The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. The accusation against liberals isn't just that they're getting more and more bad names.
To be tolerant simply means that you are weak, and allow others to do as they wish. The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. The accusation against liberals isn't just that they're getting more and more bad names.
evidently tolerate all but those they deem intolerant.
What self-absolute blindness of self-proclamation.
to be tolerant simply means that you are weak, and allow others to do as they wish, without interfering. To confuse it with being liberal is a mistake. Liberality would proclaim itself tolerant, true, and this piece would criticize liberalist politicians quite nicely. But I don't follow the line about not being open minded in the same way as the rulers. I haven't really heard anything to imply that the rulers were doing anything to limit open-mindedness, only to allow for its continuation.
It is a well-known fact that reality has liberal bias.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance.
Many liberals suspect passionate convictions are latently authoritarian. But liberalism should surely be a passionate conviction. Liberals are not necessarily lukewarm. Only the more macho leftist suspects that they have no balls. You can be ardently neutral, and fiercely indifferent.
Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.
Online liberalism, as Ive said many times, is not actually a series of political beliefs and alliances but instead a set of social cues that are adopted to demonstrate ones class background economic class, certainly, but more cultural class, the various linguistic and consumptive signals that assure those around you that youre the right kind of person and which appear to be the only thing that Americas 20-something progressives really care about anymore. The dominance of personal branding and cultural signaling over political theory means that liberal attitudes change very rapidly and then congeal into a consensus that is supposedly so obviously correct that it does not need defending.
Is it just me or are liberals getting more and more bad names? Theyre called something that theyve historically called conservatives: intolerant. The accusation against liberals isnt just that theyre doing something wrong, but that theyre doing the very thing they say they hate. Liberals say that the individual should be able to live the life they choose as long is their life of choice doesnt harm another person. But, if their accusers are to be believed, liberals have recently been busy betraying their own principle of tolerance.