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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CactusCarlos on June 24, 2008, 03:12:30 PM
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Is DU tolerant?
Posted by BigDaddy44 on Tue Jun-24-08 10:02 AM
I don't mean of conservatives or republicans. I'm not talking about politics. Is DU tolerant of non-conventional or non-politically correct opinions? Progressives are, by nature, tolerant. Its what differentiates us from conservatives, who don't tolerate anything that doesn't conform to their narrow, backward view of the world.
However, I can't count how many times i've seen people pounded down with "enjoying your stay?", or other threats to their progressive credentials just because they're not in lock step with the conventional DU opinion on matters that have nothing to do with politics.
Therefore, I would say no. Am I alone?
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I wonder if he's enjoying his stay? :-)
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I wonder if he's enjoying his stay? :-)
And if he's starting to get that funny taste in his mouth. :rotf:
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Do pigs fly????
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I'm sure they are shaving his head and fitting him for electrodes as we speak.
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Is the sky pink?
Do bears not shit in the woods?
Is the Pope not a Catholic?
When you scratch a liberal you don't find a fascist?
I love the navel gazing of corrupt minds.
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Progressives are, by nature, tolerant.
Actually, by nature, "progressives" are the least tolerant because they already think they know all the answers.
The very few people who actually do know all the answers and the greater majority of people who know they don't know all the answers are much more tolerant, IME.
I wonder if there is some kind of rule of thumb, like if you think you are insane then you aren't, if you think you are the most tolerant people then maybe you aren't?
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Progressives are, by nature, tolerant. Its what differentiates us from conservatives, who don't tolerate anything that doesn't conform to their narrow, backward view of the world.
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Progressives are, by nature, tolerant.
Actually, by nature, "progressives" are the least tolerant because they already think they know all the answers.
The very few people who actually do know all the answers and the greater majority of people who know they don't know all the answers are much more tolerant, IME.
I wonder if there is some kind of rule of thumb, like if you think you are insane then you aren't, if you think you are the most tolerant people then maybe you aren't?
Look, we are tolerant and anyone who doesn't agree should be taken out and SHOT!
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sleebarker (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-24-08 11:13 AM
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12. How do you define tolerance?
It's like a minefield - just expressing your opinion can be seen as intolerant. Like you're an atheist? If you say anything about it, you're an elitist who hates Christians. If you don't watch TV, you're an intellectual snob. If you don't drive a Hummer, you're a snotty "purist". If you don't smoke, you obviously hate all smokers.
Your every choice is interpreted by others as a comment on their choices.
But that's not a DU specific thing - it's a human thing. And if human history shows anything, it's that humans are not tolerant.
And eh - as for the "enjoying your stay" thing - usually when I see it it's in response to a very obvious troll.
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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They can call themselves progressives or any other name in the book but they are economic socalists.
That is a system that simply cannot work because human nature won`t allow it to.
The result of flirtation with it was Communisim which required the point of a sword to keep it going.
They can`t be tolerant because all attempts to enact their belief system have failed so to keep up the delusion that it can work they must shut out all facts to the contrary.
In short liberalism and tolerance are mutually exclusive which is why whenever they are challenged their reaction is to silence the challenge.
Constant calls to take Rush,Fox...etc off the air that sort of thing.
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It boils down to this: They call evil good and good evil and anyone who protests their definitions is called intolerant.
Just like so many words which liberals have rendered useless, "intolerant" doesn't really mean anything anymore. It's just liberal code for "I'm losing the argument".
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It boils down to this: They call evil good and good evil and anyone who protests their definitions is called intolerant.
Just like so many words which liberals have rendered useless, "intolerant" doesn't really mean anything anymore. It's just liberal code for "I'm losing the argument".
H5. Dead on.
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Progressives are very tolerant of anything and everything...........as long as it's all going their way.
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Is DU tolerant?
Posted by BigDaddy44 on Tue Jun-24-08 10:02 AM
No.
And that sound of metal on stone you hear is your Tombstone being carved.
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-24-08 11:24 AM
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18. "Progressives are, by nature, tolerant." BWAHAHA!
Progressives are by nature absolutely certain that they are right in every nuance of every belief they have, and anyone of a slightly different shading or inflection of that nuance is the most vile heretic, if not outright traitor, the world has ever produced, and must be destroyed. That's the opposite of tolerant, even if their dogmatism is about tolerance.
And yeah, me, too, on that.
Even a DUer gets the idea...
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Progressives are very tolerant of anything and everything...........as long as it's all going their way.
Another H5 . . .