Your example is about as spicy as lukewarm water. The responses I got involved the words “bootlicker”, “nazi”, “fascist”, and “chud”, various expletives, called into question my mental health and respect for minorities, and listed several examples of why holding those views made me the scum of the earth.
I appreciate you keeping it real. It sucks that this community’s response to dissenting views is so often hostility. I haven’t looked at your comment history so maybe you really are a fascist, I don’t know; if so, this doesn’t apply. But if not – I do wish people would think about how to bring people around to their point of view instead of rejecting them.
Well yeah, but that doesn’t invalidate the “tolerance is a social contract” mentality, it invalidates baseless accusations and extreme hostility. What I said is the actual intended result of the “don’t tolerate intolerance” mentality. If that is fine with you, then you don’t actually have any issue with the mentality itself, but with the implementation.
Your example is about as spicy as lukewarm water. The responses I got involved the words “bootlicker”, “nazi”, “fascist”, and “chud”, various expletives, called into question my mental health and respect for minorities, and listed several examples of why holding those views made me the scum of the earth.
I appreciate you keeping it real. It sucks that this community’s response to dissenting views is so often hostility. I haven’t looked at your comment history so maybe you really are a fascist, I don’t know; if so, this doesn’t apply. But if not – I do wish people would think about how to bring people around to their point of view instead of rejecting them.
Well yeah, but that doesn’t invalidate the “tolerance is a social contract” mentality, it invalidates baseless accusations and extreme hostility. What I said is the actual intended result of the “don’t tolerate intolerance” mentality. If that is fine with you, then you don’t actually have any issue with the mentality itself, but with the implementation.