To those who say liberals are intolerant...

[hfojvt]

72. it's not about the OP

it is about the group, the tribe

the tribe which wants to believe in its own virtue and at the same time to throw hate at some "others". Others who are "intolerant".

Your own little missives started out.

"maybe you're serious"

which would seem to mean "I don't believe you really are serious."

"maybe you are just being casually argumentive"

aha, so now I am casual, and argumentive

Do those words also have meaning? Are they meant to be complimentary, or insulting?

Yes, I do claim the latter.

Now, clearly I have an axe to grind and I need to buck up. Yeah, that's not meant to be insulting either. I only find it to be so because I am using

Yes, I have an axe to grind. My axe is against hatred, especially "group hatred." As Martin said "The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent, he also refuses to hate him." Is that a bad thing? Why should there be so much resistance to it?

And yes, I still do believe that saying "I do not have to tolerate some people" is a license to hate, irregardless of the word "never" in that last line, a word which is pretty clearly ignored by this same group which is applauding this OP.

Further, I would suggest that our own arrogance of our own superiority and also the hatred we so freely spew at people who disagree with us - those both help us to lose. Because Republicans are quite happy to spread the message "liberal elites think they are better than you". A message we love to help spread as we pat ourselves on the back and also look down our noses at others. We are just so awesomely tolerant and do not have to put up with those others, those intolerant ones.