Tolerance

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Tolerance is not my way or the high way. When you don't want to hear anything different than what you already believe that is not being tolerant. When you cannot exchange ideas, that is not tolerance nor is it freedom of speech. Yes, we believe certain things, our background, our experiences flavor our view of things. But when we think everyone has to believe the same as us, it is not tolerance. We can shut people down with our attitude and our tone of voice. Each of us has a right to our own opinions and my opinions are freely given on this page. I don't charge for them, you can take it or leave it. I don't want to argue. I believe a certain way and I am convinced in my mind I am right. But I believe I can listen and disagree with you without putting you down. I think of the 16-year old that addressed the united nations. She was not an expert in any field at that age, she was exploited, by those that wanted to argue their view and think we cannot challenge a child. It really wasn't a free exchange of ideas. How dare you disagree with her, she is a child. The facts do not support her narrative but the global warming advocates don't want facts, they want to push a political agenda. We are given data from say the 1950s that support their narrative, but yet it has been shown if you go even further back to the 1800s, the weather trends do not support their narrative. It is all about pushing their agenda. When you do accurate reporting you do tell that one polar cap is losing its ice cap but if reporting fairly you would also tell the other polar cap is expanding its ice cap. Weather changes., it has been cyclic since the beginning of time. We had an extend heatwave this summer but in other areas, we are facing record cold temperatures. The saying absolute power corrupts absolutely is going to be proven I am sure like it has in other countries as they took away rights.  We are pawns in the hands of our politicians. Freedom of speech used to be so important. I remember years ago when I use to tell ethnic jokes, I was just trying to be funny, I really had no intention of putting any race down. Now we see where comedians cannot ply their trade for fear of offending someone. I use to take Pollock jokes and change them to German jokes. They were just as funny but our society does not see this political correctness doing the damage it is doing. Everyone is a victim anymore and you almost can't laugh at a joke anymore. It might offend someone. I hope the trend changes to tolerance once again, where a comedian can ply his trade once again.  When political opinions different than ours can be freely spoken again. I would like to see an attitude of forgiveness prominent again.  Live and let live. Those were some good days and we made progress in our country. We went from owning slaves to all are free. We went from Jim Crow to our civil rights of the 60s. We are still not perfect, we can still improve, but we are the best country on this planet. We started off in this country where women did not have the right to vote and they do now. Some day I believe the right woman will become President, it just wasn't Hillary. We should be proud of the fact that Obama became President, we may not be happy with his performance but it still shows progress in our country. We have made so much progress in our country from the beginning, can we celebrate that? Tolerance is not beating up a kid that wears a MAGA hat to school. Tolerance is not shouting down someone that believes conservatively at our colleges. Hate speech is not everything you disagree with, that is intolerance. We promote women and put them on the cover of magazines if they are liberal thinking, if they are conservative thinking, we ignore them. That is not tolerance, that is the opposite. God help us and God bless, LVZ.