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Tolerance
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The trouble with being tolerant is that
people think you don't understand the problem.
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-Merle L. Meachem
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Often nowadays we hear a
question posed that is not really a question. It is an oblique assertion of
what the ostensible questioner considers a self-evident truth. The question
is: Should we not all respect and honor one's differences? The gravaman of
the "question" invariably is that differences of race, ethnicity and
sexuality all should be "respected" and "honored."
I disagree. Why should respect and honor accrue to
accidents of birth? Given that they are accidents, what, precisely, is there
to honor? Surely, respect is owed to, and honor should flow to
individuals, for their attainments of intellectual or moral
excellence, not merely because of any membership in any group.
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-George Will
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