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RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 13, 2018 at 1:44 am
(December 13, 2018 at 1:38 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Years back - it was common for machinists such as myself to take the ISO course on geometric tolerancing - whenever work got slow...
We made a bit of a game of it after the third or fourth time taking the same course - and we decided that we needed to come up with a " mission statement" about the course - to explain to our spouses, friends and family, what the course was all about.
We came up with -
If you want more tolerance - you need a bigger hole.
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I realize now we were on to something ----
As these days - a goodly number of people I meet who yammer on about tolerance - seem to be some rather large holes,.........
(betting this joke doesn't get tolerated well...) As a joke no it's awful
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RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 13, 2018 at 1:50 am
Dude - I shudder to think what you might find funny....
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RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 13, 2018 at 2:06 am
(December 13, 2018 at 1:50 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Dude - I shudder to think what you might find funny....
A box full of kittens and a ball peen hammer bring a smile to your face?? Really i think i have a very loose sense of humor
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RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 13, 2018 at 2:17 am
Odd that the big hole one didn't work then......
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RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 13, 2018 at 2:19 am
(December 13, 2018 at 2:17 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Odd that the big hole one didn't work then......
Meh can't work on everyone i suppose
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RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 13, 2018 at 9:59 am
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 13, 2018 at 10:10 am
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2018 at 10:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Why should the platform and viewpoint we're discussing be welcomed? It's a regressive turd with absolutely no value whatsoever. There's no requirement in pluralism that we hug a bunch of brownshirts....and as I pointed out at the very beginning of our convo with reference to the paradox of tolerance..and then the example of the rise of global rise illiberalism, that's exactly how you kill a pluralist society.
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RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 13, 2018 at 10:19 am
I'm not saying to embrace the turd. I'm saying participants should have some skin in the game, their viewed should be valuated, and included or excluded to the plurality.
My other pint was that you claim to be tolerant and show intolerance. If you start your debate with:
You're an asshole
You're not being tolerant and can't claim to be tolerant at any point later. Calling a spade a spade and a turd a turd is not being intolerant, it's be discriminatory. Justly discriminatory, if there is a reasonable value assessment.
That's another loaded word. Do you discriminate? Yes I do, every day all day, why is that a bad thing? I digress... OK back to work for me.
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RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 13, 2018 at 11:16 am
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2018 at 11:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm not trying to deport the assholes. That's the difference of MO between me and assholes, and tolerance doesn't mean that you can't point out that a person is an asshole.
We've already been over this. You're repeating the wambulance complaint, fielding a charge of hypocrisy...where none exists in the first place, lol.
-aaaaaaaaaaand now we're onto reverse discrimination of the funhouse mirror variety.
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RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 13, 2018 at 5:27 pm
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(December 13, 2018 at 11:16 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: I'm not trying to deport the assholes. That's the difference of MO between me and assholes, and tolerance doesn't mean that you can't point out that a person is an asshole.
We've already been over this. You're repeating the wambulance complaint, fielding a charge of hypocrisy...where none exists in the first place, lol.
-aaaaaaaaaaand now we're onto reverse discrimination of the funhouse mirror variety.
"It's important to be tolerant-- except of THOSE assholes. They need to made to shut the fuck up."
--thought everyone, ever, who had a strong opinion about anything.
Tolerance doesn't mean agreeing with those who already agree with you. It means getting along with those you find antithetical to your own world view, at least insofar as they don't violate the rules of the society you live in.
And by the way. . . you're an asshole too, and I very much doubt I'm the only person who would say so.
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