(December 18, 2016 at 7:00 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(December 18, 2016 at 6:46 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I agree that there are certain lines of thoughts that shouldn't be tolerated. Like if someone thinks it's ok to rape or kill or enslave people, for example. Obviously. But you will literally hardly ever find that in Western culture. Usually intolerance of thought is directed at someone who has a different religion or a different political opinion than yourself.
Right, but that's what we're talking about here, with regards to a lot of Trump supporters, and a lot of conservatives. (Not all, but a lot).
We're talking about conservative "values" in denying gays and transgender individuals equal rights. We are talking about massive tax cuts for the rich. We are talking about people who are vociferously against any police criticism in the face of unarmed black people being killed nearly weekly, we are talking about the wholesale legitimizing of the white nationalist movement, we are talking about people who are overhwelmingly for a massive roundup and deportation of 11 million people, we are talking about people who support stopping all refugee help for the Syrian crisis, and even some who cheer on as their President Elect floats the idea of a registry for American Muslims.
If we're talking about conservative principles, real conservative principles of small government, deregulation, and cutting spending, I can agree to disagree. When we are talking about policies that disproportionately negatively effect the most vulnerable in our society, then I call that a crisis.
Indeed let's not confuse reasonable conservatism a flawed but respectable position with trumpism a the worst vices of a degenerating west and the worst vices of nationalism and corporatism run amok mixed with the horrors of American religious dominionism one can be disagreed with the other no such tolerance can be afforded
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