Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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POLITICS: Tolerance and T-shirts

A student conducted an interesting experiment about tolerance, using two t-shirts. It did not go well.
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tyskkvinna

tyskkvinna

November 14 2008, 15:52:30 UTC 12 years ago

This is a good point... though you're never, ever going to get a large group of people together who will completely abide by a single set of social conforms. (which is what tolerance would simply have to be)
ysabetwordsmith

Hmm...

ysabetwordsmith

November 14 2008, 16:32:19 UTC 12 years ago

Tolerance isn't about abiding by a single set of social anything. It's about letting people choose their own set, and not harrassing or harming them for doing so. You don't have to like it, you just have to stay out of their way and let them exercise their freedoms, as long as that doesn't harm nonconsenting bystanders. America actually does a pretty good job of tolerance compared with a lot of other countries where people routinely kill each other over political or other differences. We're not in the forefront anymore, though; I'd like to get that back.
tyskkvinna

Re: Hmm...

tyskkvinna

November 14 2008, 17:39:36 UTC 12 years ago

See, I think that in and of itself is a "single set". Agreeing to "agree to disagree", if you will. And threats - such as I think were explicitly made to the girl ("you should be dead", to me, is a threat) - do harm.

On the whole though, I agree, America is pretty tolerant.

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