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"Tolerant oppression: Why promoting tolerance undermines our quest for equality and what we should do instead" addresses the problem with current campaigns to promote tolerance (taught in thousands of US schools every year) as a way of fighting hatred. Those campaigns, though well-intended,... read more
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“"Tolerance, are you kidding? It's an insult! It's how white people feel better about themselves while continuing to hate Blacks."”
Study participant -
“Of course tolerance is awful. I'm just afraid that that is the best we can hope for.”
Holocaust survivor -
“"Being repulsed by intolerance does not mean that you endorse tolerance. You do not confront people who shout racial slurs by asking them to whisper instead."”
Scott Hampton -
“"Tolerance is what happens when you allow fear to stand between you and acceptance."”
Scott Hampton -
“"What do you call a supremacist who is disciplined enough to keep a secret? Tolerant."”
Scott Hampton
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- Dr. Scott Hampton (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: August 2010
ISBN: 978-160844-627-8
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: August 2010
ISBN: 978-160844-627-8
Page Count: 192
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