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LionelFirstel

(5 posts)
52. Tolerance
Tue May 1, 2018, 08:52 AM
May 2018

Wolf's jokes had nothing to do with race and neither did those who approved or disapproved of her presentation. Why are we race baiting here?

I thought we preached tolerance here, but I am seeing that is only one-sided. The same goes for free speech so this CNN story seems fitting for many of you on this thread.

(CNN) Fareed Zakaria said Saturday that though many liberals think they are tolerant, often they aren't.
Zakaria noted that "at the height of commencement season," many new graduates across the country had made their political views apparent, from the Notre Dame students who walked out as Vice President Mike Pence gave his commencement address to the crowd members who booed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos during a speech at Bethune-Cookman University.
"American universities seem committed to every kind of diversity except intellectual diversity. Conservative voices and views are being silenced entirely," Zakaria said.

The CNN host said he found this attitude strange, especially given that these incidents occurred on college campuses that "promised to give their undergraduates a liberal education."
"The word liberal in this context has nothing to do with today's partisan language, but refers instead to the Latin root, pertaining to liberty. And at the heart of liberty in the Western world has been freedom of speech. From the beginning, people understood that this meant protecting and listening to speech with which you disagreed," Zakaria argued

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Tolerance LionelFirstel May 2018 #52
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