tolerance

"I just want to be tolerated!"

It's a line I hear often from a rather large amount of my gay/lesbian/bi friends; a line that resonates throughout the overal LGBT community. So, I find myself guiltily wondering, is it selfish of me to want more?

I'm telling this story not to incite further debate on the state of racism today, but rather to illustrate the lengths to which we must go to combat our natural tendencies toward segregation.

Everyone remembers in the movie The Princess Bride when the short, bald (and probably French) Vizzini constantly declares that things happening right before his eyes are “inconceivable.” Finally, the valiant and swashbuckling Inigo Montoya points out his misuse of the word, proclaiming “I do not think that means what you think it means.”

Tolerance is the big thing now. Tolerate everything! Tolerate this religion! Tolerate that religion! Tolerate my worldview! Tolerate your worldview! People want tolerance out of the world. But will they get it?

In the words of John Wayne, "That'll be the day."

It seems like today there is more intolerance than ever. Everywhere you look there is a war, genocide, fight, all words meaning one thing: Intolerance.

War and intolerance has been going on for all of time. Why don't we change that? It seems that in today world with such change going on and so many modern thoughts that we should be figuring out how to get along.

And last but not least...
Incorrect logic point #3: Protesting (yelling) would have convinced people to change.

Here it comes, again, folks: hate. Once again, members of not only the Left, but also the Right are attacking conservative talk radio. The charge? Hate speech. Specifically, they accuse such radio hosts as Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck of hating John McCain and illegal immigrants.

Talk about déjà vu. T