Posted on 10/01/2022 11:04:10 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
How did Western Civilization go from the latter to the former?
Oops sorry. I mean from the former to the latter...
Jao, his minions and puppeteers have NOTHING to do with Tolerance.
When accountability went away.
Good question.
Too much navel gazing and the wish to get away with something are two root causes to get the discussion started.
My (unpopular) opinion can be summed up in four words:
We let women vote.
And vice versa.
It begins with a rejection of right and wrong, of good and evil.
If there is no such thing as good and evil, then anything is acceptable.
We should never have accepted tolerance of homosexuality.
It didn't. What we are experiencing is an effort by the Marxists in our midst to convince us that "tolerance" is paramount.
This is part and parcel of their program to replace our society which is based on a balance of individual merit AND community with a system-based solely on community (i.e., collectivism with no room for individual merit).
A system based ONLY on community is no more possible than a system based only on individual merit.
A culture must have both, just as ancient tribes had great hunters and communities, with each supporting the other.
Not just tolerating. Also supporting, encouraging and subsidizing.
If there is no such thing as good and evil, then anything is acceptable.
We should never have accepted tolerance of homosexuality.
How did acceptance of such a thing even begin?
It was the hippies.
Leftists evidently realized that would be a good start at gutting a society's foundations and so took over the press, entertainment industries and education to get the dirty work going.
First it got rich. Then it became corrupt.
(How’s that for master of simplification?)
This video explains it, and where we’re going.
It’s a timeless one, from Bill Whittle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dwz_Z62e0s
I don’t think we were ever a society based on self restraint. American colonization was about not wanting to follow “those” rules and going someplace where people could make their own rules. Including making enclaves of different rules. Generally in the beginning it was defined by religion, people wanted to make Catholic zones, and Protestant zones, etc etc. But the big thing was we wanted to make our own rules, and have others tolerate that here Group X sets the rules, and if they want different rules go somewhere else. Tolerance was always built into it. The whole structure was “find people who think like you and do your own thing”.
Even though I wouldn't say women voting is necessarily bad, the whole liberation and suffragette thing does look suspiciously like part of the campaign to break up family bonds.
Zackly right.
....one of the best, and most truthful responses.
As part of going from a self-restraint based society to a tolerance based one, it seems a person's character is judged on how much a person tolerates others, rather than on how well they refrain from behaviors that others have to tolerate. And people in contemporary society reach such a level of giddiness if they can view themselves tolerant that it's like a drug in their system.
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