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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou tolerate them? You are TOLERANT of them?
I keep hearing "tolerant" in regards to the attitude taken by various people or groups when speaking about gay folks.
Do you gay folks want to be tolerated?
If someone said that to me I would want to punch them...
Listen up, bigot, (I am listening to one of em on the radio right now and I want to reach into the radio and slap him)
you will NOT tolerate gay people,
You will accept them as equal and if you cant do that, stay indoors and leave the rest of us alone.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,619 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)Tolerance is a mere step along the way, hopefully.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)intolerance and non-acceptance.
I don't want tolerance or acceptance, I just want for those that are intolerant and non-accepting to leave me, and everyone else that they are intolerant and non-accepting of, the hell alone!
I don't care what they think; just how they act.
sheshe2
(83,761 posts)yardwork
(61,608 posts)I want equal protection under the Constitution.
I don't care if they tolerate me of not, don't care if the "love" me or not.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)rights for black folk but not for gay folk, that they are not the same, etc.
No, they do not.
They want to eliminate the civil rights act entirely.
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BTW
We still have a huge problem with voting in 2016.
I hope people realize that.
marym625
(17,997 posts)The legal removal of millions of names from the registration list also, in some states, mean those people cannot vote in 2016. If something isn't done to fix that, they'll remove millions more before election day
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)people down. They whine about religious freedom. Well, what about freedom for the rest of us from oppressors trying to force their brand of religion on everyone!
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)if we could get some cooperation and likes and whatnot, I am thinking we could orchestrate some action at business and state houses where the bigots reside.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)calimary
(81,265 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)sheshe2
(83,761 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)sheshe2
(83,761 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)tishaLA
(14,176 posts)Both are despotisms: the one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it. -- Thomas Paine
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)calimary
(81,265 posts)I will not merely be tolerated. Women are more than half the population of the PLANET. We will NOT take a back seat, and we will NOT go back in time, either! And if they can't accept us as equal and they can't do more than just "tolerate" US, then they can just STFU. Butt out. And leave us alone. AND STAY THE HELL OUT OF OUR BEDROOMS AND OUR DOCTORS' OFFICES!!!!!!!!!
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)When you are dealing with the teaparty and cons, knowing they hate ALL non white protestant males, well it makes a big club for us.
DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Given your relatively consistent expressions reeking of a hardly suppressed desire to find an excuse to engage in violence in a variety of contexts, the self-parodic irony of that statement in this context comes as no surprise.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)would never be so heinous as to be RWers.
We tolerate them, up until the point that they inevitably start harming innocent people, which they will do, over and over and over again, until they die. In the meantime, we have to spend all our time legally getting these toddlers in adult bodies to stop being mean, selfish, violent brats, or else they will destroy the planet in no time flat.
tclambert
(11,086 posts)You're gay? So what, who cares? You're left-handed? So what, who cares? Sorry about the scissors thing, though.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I'll tell you what I don't tolerate - discrimination of any form against any person.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Nothing like making someone feel warm fuzzies.
You will see more of it as your page grows. My favorite was being told I shouldn't be allowed near kids.
Thanks for the post K&R
raven mad
(4,940 posts)would put 'em on the bricks if someone tried to "tolerate" her!
She and her wife of 40 years would then proceed to probably skin 'em!
Good for her!
2banon
(7,321 posts)incorporate the word/term "Tolerate" into the lexicon of "liberals"/progressives to define acceptance of equality and "diversity" . I've detested this word since it entered the lexicon of "progressiveness" I've never understood how it was allowed to survive this long.
The definition of "tolerate" has very negative connotation, correctly so. To "tolerate" is to imply putting up with bad or unacceptable behavior.
It had and still has no business being the word of choice. I really hope this word is put to rest with regard to all reference to equal rights & equal protection.
I am someone who does not believe in tolerance. I believe in equality and freedom from religious fanaticism which imposes their bigotry on my life and those I love with the intention of stripping me and my loved ones of our rights.
Let's agree to disabuse our community of this term once and for all, shall we? What say ye?