Remember that #Seinfeld episode where George says every friend group has a loser and then suggests in their group it is Elaine?
This is the equivalent to that. Buddy, you are speech we loathe stuffed in to a suit and seated behind a typewriter. You have a column in the most read newspaper in the world. We've given all we're going to give.
@woozle It was a clever idea for a millisecond like twenty years ago, but it immediately evaporated in to a puddle of excrement upon examination. These numbskulls keep running up to it and applying it to their face like eyeblack.
@andrew I think it's important to distinguish between "tolerance of ideas that I disagree with" and "tolerance of ideas that are themselves opposed to tolerance".
The first case helps nurture a venue for vigorous inquiry into the truth.
The second case allows the venue itself to be demolished.
It's the difference between allowing access to the well and allowing the well to be poisoned.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, tolerance is a contract -- an extension of trust. When someone uses that trust to advance intolerant ideas, they have broken the contract and are no longer party to its benefits.
@woozle@andrew when you think about it, who's the real threat to Middle Earth - The Dark Lord Sauron or those intolerant woke Hobbits that canceled him?
Then, Bret, be not afraid when we approach you singing gaily, "Eat the rich."
As a kitten-soft and utterly out-of-touch silver-spooner, you and the precious snowflakes like you, will be among the first. 😬
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