Divided We Fall
Chapters 16 - 20
Please use this thread to discuss the above referenced chapters.Chapters 16 - 20
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So liberal acceptance of LGBT is not actually tolerance. But how far should tolerance of those outside of your group go?Chapter 16 Rediscover Tolerance
The word "tolerance," of course, implies that there is something to tolerate. True tolerance, according to (psychiatrist Scott) Alexander, is "respect and kindness toward members of an outgroup" - not respect and kindness toward members of what others would define as an outgroup, but rather respect and kindness toward people who are out of your group. When there's nothing to overlook, and no patience required, there's no tolerance.
p. 186
Signs of the Times
The truth about those yard signs advertising diversity and open-mindedness is that all of them really mean the opposite: ‘No Trespassing.’
...The less real diversity there is in the neighborhood, the more the local progressives feel compelled to advertise their bona fides to one another.
...The people with the “No Human Is Illegal” signs live in a gated community, even if the gates are invisible and the borders are enforced by mortgage bankers rather than by actual patrolmen.
Kevin Williamson 8/3/22
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/08/ ... the-times/
Just enough. Well perhaps there is hope we can do just enough.But there is a silver lining to this dark cloud. America doesn't need very much tolerance to survive and thrive. While we can hope and wish for fellowship, America wasn't built to need fellowship, or even affection, to maintain its national unity and its immense national strength. It requires just enough tolerance and affection to permit other individuals to enjoy their most basic liberties and - critically - to permit other communities to (mostly) govern themselves. You don't even have to give up the dream of persuading all your opponents to abandon their ideas and philosophies. You merely have to give up the idea of coercing your opponents into holding (or at least living according to) "the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests" that you deem just.
Chapter 18 page 208