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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLiberalism is Freedom
Freedom is Tolerance
Tolerance is not a la carte
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Liberalism is Freedom (Original Post)
Boom Sound 416
Aug 2014
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bravenak
(34,648 posts)1. But what are you trying to say?
I don't tolerate bullshit or racists or rapists or killing. Still a liberal. It makes me a liberal to not tolerate bullshit like that.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)2. No, silly goose.
I'm talking about ideology, not jerks and criminals
redqueen
(115,186 posts)3. No, "silly goose", liberals are not tolerant of all ideologies. nt
TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)5. Many ideologies come with criminals and jerks baked into the cake
No, I'm not going to be tolerant of failed voodoo economics, neoconartistry, destroying the habitat for dollars, failed drug wars, or corporate dominance and capture of government either.
Call me what you will.
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)6. Exactly, Sir
"I want you to know, boys and girls, that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that...."
aikoaiko
(34,214 posts)4. I think this is what separates liberals from progressives.
And at times that makes both uncomfortable with themselves and annoys the other.
That's getting to the heart of it