{"id":3569,"date":"2011-12-08T21:39:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2011-12-13T20:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T03:43:38","slug":"tolerance-or-cowardice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3569","title":{"rendered":"“Tolerance” or “Cowardice”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“They learn to accept [both] gay rights in North America and stoning<\/a> gays in Afghanistan.”<\/em><\/p>\n

A Canadian hgh-school teacher wonders if being non-judgmental and “celebrating diversity” can go too far when he sees his students morally paralyzed by a act of sexual violence from another culture.<\/a><\/p>\n

As a member of a religious minority, I am all for “tolerance.” But I am realistic enough to know that we tolerate<\/em> what we do not like but cannot change.<\/p>\n

I cannot get rid of all the mosquitoes in the world, so I tolerate<\/em> being bitten, although I try to minimize mosquito bites.<\/p>\n

So I figure that if I am to be tolerated<\/em>\u00a0 on one account, I need to make sure that I am contributing to society in other ways. Then people can say, “Well, he is one of those, but he’s OK.”<\/p>\n

But back to the main topic, what are you required to tolerate? Where are the limits?<\/p>\n

As Kevin Bearquiver, an official of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, said in a different context,<\/a> ” \u201cTolerance is a European thing brought to the country. We never tolerated things. We turned our back on people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, there are more nuanced forms of cultural relativism out there\u2014ask any anthropologist. But most people’s moral development does not include cultural anthropology classes.<\/p>\n

Via (indirectly) Brendan Myers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“They learn to accept [both] gay rights in North America and stoning gays in Afghanistan.” A Canadian hgh-school teacher wonders if being non-judgmental and “celebrating diversity” can go too far when he sees his students morally paralyzed by a act of sexual violence from another culture. 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