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I think it's crazy how so many left wingers I know have real trouble with diversity yet claim to be the most for diversity.

For the record. I did read the whole of your post. And I said it before, we have nothing in common. I perfectly understand why your scottish friend doesn't want to have anything to do with you. The only thing I don't understand why she bothered with you anyway.

As far as diversity goes. Accepting exclusion, bigotry or resentment isn't accepting diversity. It's the polar opposite. Any opinion or world view based on degrading others to the level of secondary humans is something to fight against. Certainly not something to tolerate.

Diversity of thought is much more difficult to tolerate. People with different religious beliefs, different values, and different political opinions. That right there is real diversity. And tolerating and respecting all people regardless of those things is real tolerance, imho.

Same as I said above. There are lines of thought that can't be tolerated. Well, yes, they should speak their mind, but I'm not willing to tolerate a mindset in the spirit of diversity that fights against common human decency. The part you mentioned in the first paragraph of your post. The one I didn't quote.

To carry it to it's extreme - we're not there yet - I guess noone would stand for accepting Hitler and his merry men in the spirit of diversity. The foundations have already been laid out by the likes of Wilders, Trump and others. The sense of exclusion is the very same. It only remains to be seen if our civilization is strong enough to withstand the onslaught of primitive resentment this time round.