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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 12:57 PM
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3. When people are intolerant of intolerance
that is not equivalent to oppression.

Maybe you think that Hecate should tolerate intolerance and then everyone would be happy. That is the same sort of argument that people make to suggest that women should tolerate sexism or they are sexist.

Actually - a lot of people are pissed off by people demanding that they be tolerant of other people's intolerance, sexism, racism - while those people are not willing to be tolerant of them. That's what I think it is about.

The concept of COEXIST is a great as long as the point is not that everyone be tolerant of the dominant culture while the dominant culture oppresses them.

I think a lot of people like to just ignore that oppression and pretend it does not exist.

So someone is mad. Too bad.


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