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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
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Originally posted by Yorick:
Someone being intolerant of intolerance is effectively painting themself into a corner.
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Examples? I have some.
Demonstrate how Martin Luther King Jr. painted himself into a corner by not tolerating intolerance. How did Rosa Parks paint herself into a corner by not tolerating intolerance. How has the Civil Rights Acts of the last 50 or so years painted every law-abiding U.S. citizen into a corner? How did international pressure to end Arpartheid in South Africa paint much of the world into a corner?
I don't know why you are so hung up in attacking my stance on intolerance, but all your petty judgements about me are far more telling about you. [/QUOTE]Martin Luther King took stands against racism. Against people being judged by the colour of their skin, rather the content of their hearts. He did not tolerate racism. He was intolerant of violence, racism and inequaltiy.
Rosa Parks did not tolerate segregation. She refused to tolerate aparteid-like laws seperating people according to race.
Both of these people were INTOLERANT and that is why they succeeded in changing their environment. When you decry intolerance you preach apathy. I am proudly intolerant of murder, abortion, fear, terrorism, incest, rape, domestic violence, paedophilia, and many other things. I wear intolerance proudly. There are things in my world which I will not tolerate and seek to end, remove or limit.
I will not tolerate self loathing in myself, nor self condemnation, bitterness, fear, hatred, or materialism.