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I'm Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon.

If you don't like diversity, I've got some bad news for you. You probably won't like

heaven. Now, you may think you understand what I'm saying, but you probably don't because I think that

intolerance is on the rise it doesn't matter if you're on the left or you're on the right

intolerance is becoming an incredibly prevalent almost universal experience in our culture.

So there's one kind of intolerance that I think most people would agree we don't want anything

to do with.

I don't know many people personally who would say that they're for racism or they're for

sexism that they don't want to be around people who have a different gender than them

or that they don't want to be around people who have a different race than them but

there's a lot of other forms of intolerance which are

becoming incredibly prevalent. There's a kind of tolerance that we

appreciate and we applaud and that our country thrives on and that's the kind of

tolerance that says that everybody can

have a seat at the table and be a part of the discussion and that we respect other

people's views and we listen to them and learn from them even if we're not persuaded by them, even if we don't hold

those views.

That people are tolerant when they allow other voices, voices they disagree with.

So for example, the ACLU used to say that even if we disagree with the Ku Klux Klan,

and they most assuredly did, which of course we do too disagree with the clan.

They would fight, the ACLU would fight for the clan's right to walk down the street,

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