People Are Getting Tired of One-Way Tolerance

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  1. XXJefferson#51

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    ….No, it’s a counter-offensive in a culture war that most people thought they were avoiding by saying “Live and let live.”

    People feel betrayed. They really expected tolerance to go both ways. Normal folks extended tolerance to all manner of different people and it never occurred to them that they would experience bigotry in return. The idea of tolerance is, at its core, a good one. But everyone has got to be tolerant, and everyone has got to be cool.

    What’s happening now is distinctly uncool. And people are tired of it.

    The thing that these cultural aggressors do not get is that outside elite institutions, the support they have is wide but not deep. It was based not on agreement with some of the nuttier ideas but on the idea that you do not inflict unnecessary pain on others. Yet it seems the aggressors imagine that people really believe their lunacy. They don’t. And when they get angry, that will become apparent.

    You are going to see more laws protecting women’s sports. You will see more laws banning sex indoctrination of kids and CRT as well. Just wait until people take aim at the government-subsidized universities, the hothouse where these ideologies sprout. The whole edifice of this strange successor ideology will burn as leaders arise who will take on the new intolerants.

    It's kind of a cliché when libs howl that Ron DeSantis is even worse than Trump, but in fact, the governor will be much worse. Trump was elected to stop the elites’ new order. DeSantis will be elected to destroy it because Americans will no longer tolerate leftist intolerance. ….







    read more: https://townhall.com/columnists/kur...re-getting-tired-of-oneway-tolerance-n2605240







    Liberal and secular progressive intolerance is the last straw for many. This current elites offensive in the culture wars has drawn a long overdue reaction. The left has gone too far and pushed the live and let live majority too far. The pushback is finally here.
     
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    This author is exactly right. There was no culture war before. No the tolerant live and let live has been pushed a bridge too far by the secular and the cancel culture and the real culture war is now engaged. Disney and company have awakened a sleeping giant.
     
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    Saw something earlier where people on the left were crying about transgender day because it implies there are only 2 genders :roll:
     
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    Because there are actually only two genders. The left has pushed this crap upon the rest of us for far too long. Every time we just went with live and let live to get along, they upped the ante and pushed for more. Then with Biden and a democrat congress and social media they thought they were going to cram their whole depraved agenda down our throats over our objects and make us enjoy getting bent over a hot fender with no Vaseline. We aren’t going to take it anymore!
     
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    Let's hear from the Right how widespread 'Leftist intolerance' affects your daily life. Go!
     
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    I thought the author favored live and let live. The complaint was that we've moved to a place where live and let live is no longer the case and replaced with live as we say.

    If we move back to declaring depravity on any perspective that isn't "normal" don't you become the monster we are trying to slay here?
     
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    What monsters? Live and let lives assumes you’re not trying to change everyone else’s way of life to suit your extreme minority position. Trying to change language, force unreasonable and untenable DE&I quotas along with controlling how people are even allowed to think, is crazy. Right now the extreme left has a stranglehold on culture because they control most influencing it. It’s their way or the high way. And because so many cowardly leaders are so frightened of upsetting them, they have the power even though they shouldn’t have any power. Luckily they’ve played their hand too hard and people are pushing back.
     
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    I didn't write the article I'm just trying to establish if we are talking about live and let live and tolerance as a good thing as the author states or a bad thing as the OP has implied.

    Your position is pretty clearly stated there and I appreciate that, but if that's the case all I'm saying is make it without the pretense that you're actually championing tolerance.
     
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    There are plenty of seeds about that all here already. The article is exactly right about what is written there.
     
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    There is one way tolerance on both sides - whatever fits their political nar
     
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    I agree with this, but I also see great danger in people confusing "woke" for liberal. These people are not liberal at all.
     
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    There most definitely was a culture war before.

    Authoritarian cancel culture used to be mostly on the right and in the religious. It was like that for centuries. Now we see more of it on the left. Concerning indeed.
     
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    Still gets me everytime.
     
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    Your last sentence is the bottom line here on the issue.
     
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    Why don’t you go walk the streets in a MAGA hat and let us know how it affected your day
     
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    Not in the true and classical definition of a liberal, but they certainly fit today's progressive liberal definition to a t.
     
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    That’s absolutely true. The secular progressive left are not at all liberal in the classical sense of the word.
     
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    I think folks are just getting tired of having to fight progressive ideology in every aspect of their normal lives. I saw a clip the other day about some progressive lady saying in response to Florida's "don't say gay" bill there should be a "don't say straight bill" and let people see how they like that.

    The response that the lady wasn't expecting, nor understands, if that in response to her proposal the answer from almost everybody was SURE! We agree! You shouldn't be teaching 4 year olds about straight sexuality either. You should be teaching them about how to color and take naps.

    Normal society is getting tired of there having to even be legislation regarding what was always simply common sense. Why the hell does there need to be legislation "protecting" women's sports? Because one particular ideology in recent years decided that biological men should be able to compete with biological women. A question who's answer was "no, because that would be dumb" for EVER up until recently because of said particular ideology. Why do we need legislation banning teaching pre-school kids about sexual orientation? Because one particular ideology in recent years decided that it should be appropriate to teach 4 year olds about homosexuality and transgenderism. Again a question that if asked for EVER up until recently was given the answer of "no, because that would be dumb".

    All of this counter-battery fire is the result of the progressive ideology being unable to just chill the hell out with this stuff. When I was a kid growing up it didn't even really click in my brain that my school teachers were actual people. I just thought they were teachers, it was weird as hell whenever I'd see my teacher in the store grocery shopping on the weekends it's like it never clicked in my brain that they were people outside of the classroom. I knew nothing at all about them, if they were married, single, had kids of their own, their hobbies, their favorite movie, etc, none of that. All I knew about my math teacher was that she knew how to teach math and that was the extent of my knowledge of her and the extent of what I NEEDED to know about her as a 7 year old learning times tables. Nowadays a lot of these teachers are acting like it's some great affront to human morality if they aren't allowed to talk to their students about the fishing trip that he and his husband went on last weekend before math class starts.

    Where did the need for that sort of thing come from and when did it become some abomination of human morality for having the audacity to have a problem with talking about it with grade school students? Wasn't from folks like me, as I said I knew nothing at all about my teachers growing up, you know the way it was back when society was sane.
     
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    I see the right wing doing back flips and have their heads exploding over issues that most of us barely notice. 99.9% of so-called right-wing issues are irrelevant to me. And I was a Republican half my life. But I cared about actual issues. I didn't care what Banjo Bob said in a rant.

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    I was commenting in a back handed way that there is nothing you can do to make some on the left happy.
     
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    Donald Trump can talk about injecting disinfectants during the worst pandemic in a century and that's okay. But if a black guy kneels the world is ending.
     
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    A black guy kneeling is an assault on the country. But the attack on the capitol was just a protest.
     
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    The right wing is actually sick of all the hysterical nonsense they are fed by liars and traitors like Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson. They just don't know it. They are shaking their fists at the sky over unicorns and goblins.
     
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    The trump train filed 61 lawsuits in an effort to overturn the election, that were all rejected if not laughed out of court; some by judges trump appointed! But the righties think the left wing is the threat to the democracy?
     
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    I think the LGBTQ community will agree with you, especially with all the anti LGBTQ bills that are being proposed by the GOP nowadays.
     

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