Does it ever seem to you guys...

[Mutley]

like the party of the tolerant has some pretty damn intolerant people?


x(

[Orrex]

1. Why don't you go jump in a lake?

I hate you and all that you stand for!

[Mutley]

5. Yeah? Well...

I'm rubber and you're glue. Whatever you say bounces of me and sticks to you!

:D

[Orrex]

8. Doh! Them's fightin' words

I'll meet you in GD-P for some serious chest-thumping!

[Mutley]

23. You and how many of your friends?

:o

[Orrex]

26. That all depends on how much cash I've got on me

Let me check and get back to you...

[Mutley]

31. Well, damn.

Some of us don't have all night.

[TZ]

14. You know whats funny....

Is I really know an argument here on DU where that was literally said (Health forum):D

[Mutley]

24. Like... someone meant it?

:crazy:

[Orrex]

29. Sadly, it gets a lot dumber in the Health Forum sometimes

Especially for Turtlensue, who's a shameless shill for the AMA and Big Pharma.

[Mutley]

32. This is why I stay in the lounge for the most part.

Every now and again I get brave and venture into GD, but that's about it. :D

[Xipe Totec]

2. Yes

We put up with a lot

Hi Mutt! :hi:

[Mutley]

6. How ya been Xipe?

:hug:

[Xipe Totec]

9. Just hanging!

I'm playing dress up this summer; teaching at UMB!

:bounce:

[Mutley]

25. Awesome!

You liking it?

[Xipe Totec]

39. I'll like it more, once I have all my lectures prepared

right now, I'm barely one lecture ahead of them.

but otherwise, it's great!

[Guava Jelly]

3. Yeah

:hi: mutley :hug:

[Mutley]

7. Hey!

I was wondering where you were the other day.

:hug: :hi:

[Guava Jelly]

10. I always wonder where i am.

;) We both have been slacking a bit lately on posting :)
:hi: :loveya:

[Mutley]

28. Indeed.

I have an excuse. I work 54 hours a week. What's yours? :D


:loveya:

[flvegan]

4. Which party is this that you speak of?

[Mutley]

18. The one I assume

most of us on this site belong to.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. I cannot answer that as I have been warned that, over the course

of posting here on and (for a total of about 5 days over the past 9 months) that I am forming some sort of a "pattern" and people are sick of it. :hi:

[flvegan]

13. Who said what now?

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter.

I just found it almost amusing.

[Mutley]

19. Eh?

:shrug:

I don't know anything about that. You've always been very good to me MrsGrumpy. :hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. This thread should be deleted

It offends me.

[Mutley]

20. That's too bad!

It's staying up and you're gonna like it!

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. If it stays up

I'd imagine you'd like it, too.

[Mutley]

30. ^.^

Omg. :O


:D

[TZ]

16. Hey!

Go away freeper troll..you aren't a "real" progressive...OOPS...sorry, I thought I was in GD--PFFT!
:evilgrin:

[Mutley]

21. Hey now, don't you belong on That Other Site?

:D

[stuntcat]

17. it's the "people" part of your statement

that's part of being humans I've decided :patriot:

[Mutley]

22. Meh, I'm feeling more and more as I get growed up

that people are overrated. :D

[Hobarticus]

33. Nice post, Hitler...

:evilgrin:

[Mutley]

35. Seig

something or another. :D

[merh]

34. .

:hi:


:hug:

[Mutley]

36. I love it.

:D

:hug:

[merh]

37. equal time for cat lovers

[Skittles]

38. it has a lot of freeper-like folk, that's for sure n/t

[Mutley]

41. I know.

It's kind of sad.

[Deep13]

40. More like there is no tolerant party.

Maybe I have realized that to be a party, there needs to be uniformity of thought which by definition excludes dissent.

[Mutley]

42. Well in a general sense

The way the Democrats define themselves as the big tent party, or the party where everyone is welcome, etc. There seems to be a lot of people who refuse to tolerate those who are not like themselves, unless it's PC to tolerate those people.

[MedleyMisty]

43. I always get stuck on this argument at this point

Where do you draw the line?

If I lived in Germany in the Nazi era, should I have just tolerated the Nazis and accepted that they were different? Should we now just accept the neocons because hey, they're different?

Also, define "tolerate". Does that mean never commenting on anything about another person at all except in the most glowing and assenting tones? I think there's a difference between saying "I think that people who drive huge luxury gas guzzlers on paved streets in a location where it hardly ever snows and where the streets are immediately salted and plowed if it does snow are greedy and selfish." and actively going out to beat them up. And because the group is so specific and based on something that they chose rather than an attribute they were born with and because there's no power relationship or history of discrimination involved, you can't say that comments like that perpetuate a climate of prejudice.

Plus, if you're going to be preaching toleration and acceptance of everything, doesn't that include accepting that other people may have opinions about your choices and may state those opinions?

Also, when people go on about other people not accepting them, I usually find that it's because they can't tolerate and accept people being different than they are. Like "Oh, you drive a Prius. That automatically means that you are a "purist" and that you hate me because I drive a Hummer. If you were a good decent tolerant person who walked the walk of equality, you'd drive a Hummer too."

[Mutley]

46. Well, I do believe the difference between the Nazis and

let's say, "rednecks" is that "rednecks" have not, to my knowledge, put millions of people into an oven. Sure, there will be psychotics among "rednecks," but there will also be psychotics among "non-rednecks."

I don't think I said anything in my OP about anyone perpetuating a climate of prejudice. However, I disagree with your statement. There isn't any significant power relationship or history of discrimitation between city dwellers and rural dwellers, but when someone who lives in a city calls a rural dweller an ignorant redneck hillbilly, well, that surely sounds like a climate of prejudice to me. Just as when that rural dweller calls city dwellers latte drinking elitest liberals. That also sounds like a climate of prejudice.

Also, may I not have opinions about other's opinions?

Lasty, I was not going on about people accepting me personally. If you'd like to know, my comment was made because of a few different threads in GDP where people were tossing around nasty comments about other people based on one small aspect of their lives. It's a behavior I see on this site quite often.

[Deja Q]

44. Define 'tolerance'.

It ranges the entire gamut and I could cite some real hoots of examples (none of which is based on any DU'er, might I add...)

[easttexaslefty]

45. I find it's a true mix

Some truly kind people and some extremely judgemental ones

[Captain Hilts]

47. You can say / type that again. This place has been over-run by bad attitudes and conspiracy ...

theorists.

[Haole Girl]

48. Yes

You have proved, once again, you are wise beyond your years.

[Lil Missy]

49. Yup. And not only that ....

but that most of GDP has never seen a primary or election before.