How much intolerance should be tolerated?

[kentuck]

Yes, we believe in free speech and free expression but does there come a moment where we must say, "No, we cannot tolerate something that is so corrosive and divisive that it is a danger to our country"?

Isn't that the position that the Democrats have been put in - with regards to the going to the Trump inauguration or whether or not Trump is a "legitimate" President?

Perhaps we have tolerated too much already?

[LaydeeBug]

1. My friends who voted for Trump (ex-cop and union teacher) tried to tell me

exactly that.

That the left should tolerate their intolerance.

They *really* believed it too.

[kentuck]

2. Knowing what they did about Trump before they voted...

tells me that they do not think very highly of our country or themselves and have very low expectations for our future? They heard it all. Yet, they voted to take our country down that dirty low road.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. we are in somewhat uncharted territory for sure.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

4. I guess the "tolerance" trolls think we should have tolerated Hitler.

Oh wait, they do.

Tolerance is not about never objecting to a single thing. I could go into more detail, but it would got over the heads of the trolls who are the only ones who need the explanation. Immature, simplistic inability to understand complicated issues and a tendency to by a total fucking asshole is the trademark of the RW troll.

[GaYellowDawg]

5. Tell them that your tolerance stops where their oppression begins.

That ought to take them a little while to unpack.

[backscatter712]

6. As one person on Daily Kos put it, tolerance is not a moral imperative. It is a peace treaty.

Originally found here: https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376#.yme69etfd

Tolerance is the peace treaty we live by so people of multiple religions, cultures, and so on, can live together without strangling each other.

When the intolerant violate that peace, that peace treaty we call tolerance is in abeyance, and we're well within our rights to be intolerant towards the intolerant.