The Intolerance of Tolerance

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🗓️ 16 March 2020

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Summary

What does it mean to be tolerant? The dictionary defines tolerance as respecting others' opinions, especially those you disagree with. But in our polarized cultural climate, it’s come to mean something else entirely. Greg Koukl, president of Stand to Reason, sorts it all out.

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0:00.0	Do you know what the word tolerance means?
0:02.8	If you do, I salute you, because I have no idea anymore.
0:06.7	I did once.
0:09.1	Everybody did once.
0:10.8	But now, thanks to the left, the word is totally up for grabs.
0:15.3	Actually, it's worse than that.
0:17.4	Tolerance now means the opposite of what it once meant.
0:21.0	Tolerance now means intolerance and intolerance now means tolerance.
0:25.8	Confusing?
0:26.8	Yeah, I know.
0:27.8	But stay with me.
0:28.8	Pay off at the end.
0:30.1	It's called clarity.
0:32.3	To be tolerant today simply means you agree with politically correct, that is, left-wing
0:38.7	positions.
0:39.7	That's all it means.
0:41.5	This is easy to show.
0:43.1	Name one position that differs from the left, that they don't label intolerant.
0:48.1	When you differ with the left on any subject, and I mean any, the people who claim to be
0:53.2	tolerant don't attack your position.
0:56.0	They attack you.
0:57.4	They label you as Dennis Brager puts it, six herb, sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic,
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