As a kid the grownup's around me and those with authority over me often said when observing some behavior of mine would say "That's just something I wont tolerate". What does it mean ?
TOLERATE: to allow to be or to be done without prohibition, hindrance.
We are told everyday by our leaders, even our spiritual ones, by the media, by friends that in today's society we must tolerate certain behaviors and positions, this is defined as being 'Poetically Correct'.[is that possible considering politics in general]. I feel a lot of 'Political Correctness' which occurs does so because of apathy.
APATHY:Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference.
When we become apathetic about the things we tolerate and become complacent about what goes on around us we find ourselves in our current situation.
COMPLACENT:self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies.
To be tolerant does not mean that you do not disagree or have another view point nor does it preclude you from voicing that disagreement It is primarily the MEDIA and to some extent social pressure which would brand us as INTOLERANT. Many of us are angry and frustrated at the amount of vitriol spewed towards those of us who are vocal about ideas and behaviors which we find either unfair or abhorrent or both.
We are 'forced' to be tolerant of many who are intolerant of us.
There has been another incident of a "work of art" partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts which is vulgar and blasphemes CHRIST, it portrays him as a buffoon and shows him engaged in various sex act's with both males and females.The objections of Christians groups have gone unheeded and labeled as intolerant and not politically correct.
Placing to 'shoe' on another foot, people have been murdered for even drawing a picture of Mohamed and if such "ART" protrayed Buddha on a carnival ride the media would be ablaze with fiery headlines demonizing the Artist and Gallery and the NEA. Government sources would disavow it's director and demand their dismissal.
Our Tolerance for things is demonstrated by our apathy, I live in a small town which has less than 15,000 population. We recently had an election for Mayor, Police Chief and City Council positions, there had been discussion regarding the use of what was a city surplus of funds as well as the trend to replace long term incumbents with new faces. I was shocked to see the results, less than 40 % of the registered voters [around 3,500] voted. Which means that around 2,000 people out of 15,000 people decided who would govern our city. Apathetic and pathetic.
Complacency was defined as "self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies." The actual dangers are as follows; you and everyone who thinks like you will become real victums, you will be accused and convicted in real courts for "hate crimes" for simply voicing and standing up for your convictions, you will find yourselves physically and verbally attacked because of who and what you are. Some of the deficiencies are; a court system which seeks to and successfully legislates from the bench, the progressives who have been appointed to federal and district courts represent the "BEST AND BRIGHTEST" from the nations liberal law schools. They have become the hands of the social architects who teach at those schools who believe their duty is to reshape American values and right percieved wrongs.
"Knowledge is Power"
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