Tolerance

At work the other day I was asking why everyone is always talking about tolerance. "He is intolerant." (insult) "She is tolerant." (compliment) "As a society we value tolerance" (the PC police I mean the news)

Think about the word. When a mother says to a child. "I will not tolerate that behavior any longer!" Was she enjoying tolerating it? Was she accepting of it? No she was gritting her teeth and hoping it would go away before she was reduced to punishing the child. Then there is the phrase "he or she has a high pain tolerance" No one ever says you have a high pleasure tolerance. Tolerance is a negative emotion. We should not be a tolerant society. A tolerant society is a resentful, angry, soon to explode society. What they mean is we should not judge anyone. We should have no standards or a collective standard which is established by a self appointed group in control of the media.
Sorry I disagree. We should not be tolerant. We should accept what we believe is right and oppose openly what we believe is wrong.

Be intolerant. Be accepting or welcoming. I welcome meeting new people. I accept different opinions. I won't tolerate some things though. I won't tolerate being told if I don't agree I do not have the right to an opinion. I won't tolerate anyone hurting my children. I would never tolerate adultery. From myself or my husband.

Every time they talk on TV about being tolerant I want to ask them if they would tolerate having a dictator who slaughters his people running their country, or tolerate a pedophile molesting their child? I have noticed that one thing the "tolerant" won't tolerate is the intolerant. Funny how it reminds me of the free speech police who oppose free speech. They want to talk about how their right is suppressed all the while if it were we'd not be hearing on CNN, MSNBC, Fox and the big 3 -- all while they try so hard to stop free speech they disagree with.

Oh the hypocricy the PC crowd.