Who's More Tolerant: Liberals Or Conservatives
In <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=002027#000032" target="_blank">this thread</a> drewprops wrote:
[quote] Tolerance is not a political trait by any party.
However, people who operate from liberal foundations have a double-standard when it comes to discussing issues. They are allowed to brand those who do not share their views, but if those same people attempt the same tactics they are labeled with every non-tolerant moniker available. When this phenomenon is brought to their attention they feign innocence while their abuse gets even nastier.
I hate politics, but I hate double-standards even more.
Finally, hasn't this wandered into APPLE OUTSIDER territory? <hr></blockquote>
Discuss.
[quote] Tolerance is not a political trait by any party.
However, people who operate from liberal foundations have a double-standard when it comes to discussing issues. They are allowed to brand those who do not share their views, but if those same people attempt the same tactics they are labeled with every non-tolerant moniker available. When this phenomenon is brought to their attention they feign innocence while their abuse gets even nastier.
I hate politics, but I hate double-standards even more.
Finally, hasn't this wandered into APPLE OUTSIDER territory? <hr></blockquote>
Discuss.
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I imagine you must be blowing fuses constantly re.
the 'war on terrorism', US foreign policy, the 'war on drugs', the so called crackdown on corporate corruption..etc etc etc etc etc....all these are riddled with the most horrendously blatant double standards.
I don't have a hamster, nor do I own any other rodents. I eat the rabbits I shoot with my crossbow every once in a while.
<strong>In <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=002027#000032" target="_blank">this thread</a> drewprops wrote:
Discuss.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Liberals are more tolerant, unless it's a conservative person/agenda. Mainly due to liberals letting anyone do anything they want and not judging.
Conservatives on the other hand have their political agenda based on certain principles that make others' freedom to do anything they want wrong. In other words, conservatives don't like to stand by and let certain beliefs get changed in the populace.
So, in effect, I'd say liberals are more tolerant in general than conservatives. It's almost by definition. However, liberals cannot usually stand to TOLERATE conservative principles.
<strong>Is tolerance a good thing?</strong><hr></blockquote>
That IS a good question. Like the label "moderate", tolerance usually indicates an abdication of responsibility, judgement or principle.
I've found conservatives to me profoundly tolerant of discussion and the views of others, usually in the smug hope that airing the views will help show how ridiculous they often are.
If you're refering to political tolerance, which would fit the context of the question, then continue.
First of all, the term Liberal and Conservative don't exactly fit into Democrat and Republican well at all, and as far as I know, NO party on earth associated with the word "Liberal" is particularly Liberal in the meaning of the word. That's why true liberals had to come up with a new term: Libertarian.
Getting back to the Liberal/Conservative debate, here's a reiterated view of very generalized American political slants.
Liberal: Economic oppression and control, social freedoms.
Conservative: Economic freedom, social oppression and control.
Arguably, both of these groups are moderate, since they have certain slants toward freedom, certain slants towards control, and there's a lot of gray area in their policy making anyway. However, where there is desire for control, there is less desire for tolerance.
Libertarians are extreme by our standards, yet they are the most tolerant group of all since they believe in economic and social freedom. While they do not tolerate socialism, coercive control, or anything of that sort, this type of intolerance is the same as the kind exhibited by the automaker described above, and I don't think it applies to the topic.
[quote]Like the label "moderate", tolerance usually indicates an abdication of responsibility, judgement or principle.<hr></blockquote>
Not at all. That doesn't even make sense knowing the definition of the word "moderate".
Tolerance is not forgetting your beliefs, but opening yourself up to the beliefs of others. And if that's a bad thing...
Tolerance is good in 99.99% of life's situations.