06-25-2008, 02:58 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Userid: 147 Location: Nottingham, England
Age: 17
Posts: 7,118
Rep Power: 8
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Originally Posted by Chan
No, it's hypocritical. You can't go about promoting tolerance and acceptance and diversity and political correctness (they all go hand-in-hand) if you exclude certain ideas or groups.
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I wouldn't promote tolerance itself, only tolerance of certain groups and behaviours. And I'd be happy to argue about why I would tolerate one group/behaviour but not another.
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Originally Posted by Chan
The OP assumes that the modern, tolerant society is what must be imposed on the entire world. It's the same kind of Western superiority crap for which so much of the non-western world hates the West.
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