Tolerance Failure
around lunchtime on Thursday, the 13th of November 2008 by Capt Jake Fortune
So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive words drawn with a red marker:
"McCain Girl."
"I was just really curious how they’d react to something that different, because a lot of people at my school wore Obama shirts and they are big Obama supporters," Catherine told us. "I just really wanted to see what their reaction would be."
Immediately, Catherine learned she was stupid for wearing a shirt with Republican John McCain’s name. Not merely stupid.
Very stupid.
"People were upset. But they started saying things, calling me very stupid, telling me my shirt was stupid and I shouldn’t be wearing it," Catherine said.
Yeah, that’s pretty much how it works with the liberal mind set. When I look at the bumper stickers, most conservative bumper stickers are positively promoting their message.
However, almost all liberal bumper stickers I see are “proudly pissing off the religious right” and such. Culture of hate is what I see.
I have a feeling young Catherine has made a good move towards the right.
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November 13th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I think i will be always bewildered by schools..
I recall part of a (school) project was the presidental election (carter/reagan).. and I recall the bias back then.. people were promoting carter like an infectious disease.. everyone had their wind up peanuts, their t-shirts.. all sorts of crap.
I remember back then thinking Carter was an idiot.. have not changed my view there..
but why are schools so hard core left? these are people teaching and making impressions on youth.. and look at how the infection spread!
November 14th, 2008 at 9:21 am
In the words of scholar Bernard Lewis:
“Tolerance is, of course, an extremely intolerant idea, because it means ‘I am the boss: I will allow you some, though not all, of the rights I enjoy as long as you behave yourself according to standards that I shall determine.’… In a letter to the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island, that George Washington wrote in 1790, he remarked, perhaps in an allusion to the famous ‘Patent of Tolerance’ promulgated by the Austrian Emperor Joseph II a few years previously, ‘It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.’ At a meeting of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Vienna some years ago the Cardinal Archbishop Franz Koenig spoke of tolerance, and I couldn’t resist quoting Washington to him. He replied, ‘You are right. I shall no more speak of tolerance; I shall speak of mutual respect.’ There are still too few who share the attitude expressed in this truly magnificent response.”
The difference between “tolerance” and “mutual respect” developed in the Lewis quote above accounts for the treatment Catherine received. Tolerance is the condescending attitude of the superior to the inferior; mutual respect is the basis for the conduct of relations among equals.