Tolerance

This is a touchy word over the more recent years, tolerance.  What does it mean and what are it's limits? As of late the mindset of "Intolerance Will Not Be Tolerated" has reared it's ugly and ignorant head. Bill Maher once quipped, "Why do we tolerate intolerance?".  He missed the point, like many occupying the same ideological position.

We tolerate intolerance because that is what it means to be tolerant.

Straight from Merriam-Webster:

Tolerance - willingness to accept feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own.  (Please read the full entry.)

Intolerance - not willing to allow or accept something;  not willing to allow some people to have equality, freedom, or other social rights. (Please read the full entry to this as well.)

Quite simply Bill, "we" tolerate intolerance because that's what tolerance means, to accept that which we cannot control.

South Park even brings their intellectual skills to the task of pointing how horrible the idea is of not tolerating intolerance.

There is a distorted conversation about what tolerance means these days.  It is trending towards a "Be nice to minorities, whitey deserves to be hated" attitude.  "Privileged" is now a significant code word meaning, "White".  Just like "Thug" is a new code word for "Black".  What strikes me is that I have been looking for a word that is offensive to White People.

"Cracker" just doesn't do it.  There really just hasn't  been one.  "Privileged" is it.  And it is cast by intolerant individuals in the name of tolerance.  Too many examples exist for me to care enough to get deep into it all.