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[paulpablo]

Unfortunately when some people talk about diversity, they are referring to those of different races, sexual identity, and country of origin. It's easy to tolerate those things. Why in the world would I care what someone's skin color is? Or who they prefer to have sex with? Or what country they were born in? I don't care about that. No normal person should. Those are surface things that don't impact me or my life whatsoever.

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.

This is what the catch-22 is. If your (global you) thought or belief is that gays shouldn't have the same rights, or that police killing black people without consequence is tolerable, or that women and poor people should be deprived of reproductive choice, or that we should round up and deport 11 million people, or that white nationalism is a position worth legitimizing and supporting, then your opinion is deleterious to a free and open society.

I will support anyone's right to have those opinions, but I will be vocal in my dissent and my attempts to delegitimize those opinions. If that makes me intolerant, so be it. I am, by the same token, intolerant of attempts to evangelize any beliefs in schools or science denial.

Yeh that is a huge catch but that's what comes with multiculturalism and different cultures.

My work place for example.

Nigerians from the Ebo tribe who hate homosexuals, Muslims, and people from the yuroba tribe, probably getting the spelling of these tribes wrong so just going off the pronunciation.

Nigerians from the yurobo tribe in the same work place.

A Syrian who doesn't like working with black peoples or Pakistanis.

Pakistani Muslims who hate homosexuals and believe thieves should have their hands removed, along with a black Muslim from Africa.

A lesbian who thinks the Polish should go back to where they come from.

Me a part a part Polish person. Weirdly the lesbian is my closest friend in work despite her supporting hillary, being against Brexit and her saying Polish people should go back.

White old men who hate the Polish, black people, Muslims and so on.

So you could say my work place is pretty much absolutely full of vermin prejudice subhuman people or whatever you want to say.

That's the diversity that experience just being a part of it. Like a cog in a diverse machine.

So yeh I agree there's a catch with diversity in that within the diverse folds is a lot of dislike or even hatred.