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Furedi is a famous contrarian – he takes on accepted wisdom and turns it on its head – and tolerance is the perfect subject for him. He knocks down the pieties and delusions of our age with neat elegance, but lands you up in very uncomfortable places. His argument is that in our enthusiasm for tolerance, we have actually become a deeply intolerant culture. We pass legislation to police hate speech, campaigners launch tirades of abuse on climate change deniers, New Atheists lambast religious believers. On all fronts, Furedi sees examples of a new intolerance – the very popularity of the phrase “zero-tolerance” indicates the problem.
Tags: Politics
September 5th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
“Frank Furedi, a sociologist, offers in a new book On Tolerance, … “
Frank Furedi is a bit slow off the mark, for the last 30 years in the U.K. tolerance has been nothing more than a word of deception deployed by scoundrels of all political persuasions. Because of political deceptions and acts of pseudo-tolerance the use of the word is now morally reprehensible in the U.K.
Nemo me impune lacessit.