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is a hegemonic illusion. What is needed is a 'critical' tolerance which examines how differences are organized unequally along normative indices.

for Ahmed, it is the illusion that we are tolerant that is hegemonic. Ahmed's short intervention suggests in turn that tolerance is worth pursuing and that it needs to be anchored in something hitherto under-appreciated by the prevailing political culture. This 'something' might be phrased provisionally as a critical or interrogative tolerance. A tolerance which incorporates a semiotic literacy among majority and mironities alike concerning the 'regimes of representation' (Hall 1997: 232) which organise difference unequally along various normative indices.

is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to 'hate' from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

a positive and creative force, the unity of detachment and concern.

is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals. Friedrich Nietzsche

is a text which comes when we are in the minority.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

is a tool with which to manage the threat of difference as a genial neighborly value while clearly serving more ominous political purposes of stratification, licensing and regulation.

Brown also notes how in the lexicons of domains as diverse as statistics, engineering, physiology (plant and human), policing and prosecution, invoking the word tolerance always implies that a contaminant, a foreign body or something dangerous is stirring. Tolerance is then applied as a 'mode of incorporating and regulating the presence of the threatening Other within.'34 Seen through this lens, tolerance is arguably a tool with which to 'manage' the threat of difference and thus simultaneously ensure the continuity of the dominant substance/body/force/identity, depending on the context. Brown then goes on to discuss that the brilliance and effectiveness of tolerance as such an instrument of difference management is that it appears merely as a 'genial neighbourly value'35 while clearly serving more ominous political purposes of stratification, licensing and regulation.

is a virtue, and as such we should not allow immigrants who do not value tolerance into our tolerant society.

if tolerance is a virtue and you know I I'm concerned that Aristotle said the tolerance and apathy of the last virtues of a dying civilization but if tolerance is a virtue then we should not allow intolerant people into a tolerant society that had to me that's the universalization that has been lost universalization which is a both strength and weakness of a Western thought you know the idea that it's not just my in tribe that is good but there are moral standards that apply universally that's I think a very wonderful and powerful thing which also goes into the guilt thing because if people don't feel guilt there's no point having universal ethics because there's no soil to plant those that conscience in this whole notion of different standards of morality

is, along with apathy, the last virtues of a dying society (fake attribution).

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society. Aristotle

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