On Liberals and Tolerance

It's curious to me that liberals wear their "tolerance" like a badge of honor. To tolerate something is to endure it without repugnance. That is, you can barely put up with it without having to hold your nose or look away.

A modern, softer, political definition of tolerance is "a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own." Even it says that if you're tolerant of something you inherently disagree with it.

Tolerance is also defined as "freedom from bigotry." How can someone promote "freedom from bigotry" and practice tolerance at the same time? Bigotry is a practice that most of us abhor, but it seems that we aren't supposed to be tolerant of bigotry. So who gets to choose what is to be tolerated or not tolerated? Apparently the liberals do.

Anyway, what constitutes tolerance? Where do we draw the line between tolerating something that we disagree with and not tolerating it? The race hustlers demonstrated the limits of their tolerance when Don Imus called some women basketball players nappy-headed hos. Why are celebrities forced to apologize when they do or say something stupid? It would be fine with me to just tolerate them. It seems that tolerance is something you practice only when it doesn't really matter to you that much.

Tolerance, like diversity and multiculturalism, is just another empty, meaningless concept that liberals are trying to use to advance their agenda -- which seems to be to destroy the American culture.

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