This is why George Bush's toadying after Ted Kennedy who is a moral and political pervert and his pandering to Bill Clinton who is also a pervert, also in both respects, is so damaging to the nation both politically and morally.
The right to be intolerant should be considered one of the foundation stones of our liberties. Note carefully, I did not say the government had a right to be intolerant nor do I condone violence in furtherance of personal intolerance. And I concede that even private intolerance, when based on race or religion, edges on dangerous ground. But for the government to control behavior even in these realms of great sensitivity is to invite cultural fascism on a massive governmental level.
Under these circumstances of government imposed political correctness it would be impossible to ostracize, shame, ridicule, or humiliate those society needs to keep in check. If our government, acting out of misguided political correctness, prevents us from performing these tasks, the risk of government fascism is greater than the damage which might be done through private, nonviolent, intolerance.
Before political correctness, the government permitted us to be intolerant of homosexuals. The day might soon come when the government prevents us from being intolerant of pederasts. The government has long since prohibited us in much of our private affairs from being intolerant on the basis of race or religion. But not all of our private affairs are controlled by the government in this respect, the government still permits us in many jurisdictions, for example, to be intolerant on the basis of race about whom we will accept as tenants in our private homes.
The danger of the government legislating tolerance in private affairs has been amply demonstrated in the fiascoes arising out of sexual-harassment laws where the government has substituted a bizarre and subjective standard for the millennia tested give-and-take arising out of the war between the sexes. In the old days, when a man overstepped his bounds, it was handled privately and he may well have been "ostracized, shamed, ridiculed and humiliated." Today his employer might well have to forfeit millions of dollars and all other employees might well have to undergo brainwashing courses until they are fully educated to Big Brother's new standards-or more realistically, absence of standards. Which is worse, private intolerance or political correctness?
