I don’t tolerate Romney and Huckabee because they are both squishes, the former for his insurance overhaul catastrophe and the latter cuz he’s like Carter without the peanut farm: Small state Guv with big Gov ideas. Romney when confronted with the test of more liberty or more government control chose the latter.
Tolerance and intolerance are not appropriate on the political battlefield, just as they are not appropriate on the football field. Should Green Bay be tolerant or should they try to win?
Ideas freely spoken are violent things the bigger the topic the more violent the speech.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Whoa!!! Somebody wants to get this party started!
Speech problems are solved by more speech. Your faulty reasoning will only be exposed through more speech and by and large those believing in liberty will side with this premise.
Foreclosing speech through intimidation and violence is a different matter. Foreclosing speech through the levers of government is the same as violence and intimidation, the same matter.
I for one believe the Hollywood Left can discriminate against rightwing supporting actors. I think they are paying the price for it in the long run because the quality of their product declines with each subsequent year and they are left to recycle ideas from the past (the A-Team, really?).
They are only hurting themselves, as all closed societies do.
That and I refuse to pay them for it.
My $8/m for Netflix I guess would keep Alec Baldwin in neckties... just not very good ones.
There is a huge difference between the kind of intolerance discussed in this article and merely disagreeing with someone, even vigorously. When one tilts over line from disagreement into degrading another because they hold a different opinion, then that is the same kind of intolerance we deplore when it comes from the Left.