Word: toleranceã
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...short, your voice is still low. Transgression on Drag Night might make you feel good, but it makes a mockery of trans people and trans lives. Drag Night, at least in its current incarnation, doesn’t bring “diversity” or “tolerance?? to Harvard (two claims made in a recent Drag Night e-mail). Instead it makes gender transgression something to shave about, dress up and sing a song for. After the night is done, we can go back to our dorm rooms and put our boxers and khakis back...
...tolerance?? is a dicey word. It gets repeated like a mantra in these parts. Its syllables merge into the murky, hypnotic murmur of PC-speak that might be called the soundtrack to Harvard life. Tolerance is a generous word, not particularly demanding on those who use it, because it leaves lots of room for uninterrogated prejudice under a brittle veneer of civility. Tolerance accommodates statements like, “I have no problem with gay people, I just don’t see why they have to be so in-your-face about...
...Local 35’s Proto laid out a “zero tolerance?? policy for labor accepting inferior proposals from management...
...need no such label to be considered bad arguments. As members of an intellectual community, each of us already has the capacity to identify bigotry where it exists and to distinguish valid argument from hate. We don’t need outspoken proponents of “tolerance?? to do it for us. What we do need is dissent from students like Pappin, who challenge us all to examine the limits of our inclusiveness and to question the bitter hypocrisy of whom we choose to tolerate and whom we choose to silence...
...Greater Boston, His Eminence Cardinal Bernard F. Law last week stripped Rev. D. George Spagnolia of his ability to exercise priestly ministry and revoked his monthly stipend of $1,400. The cardinal claims that this action was justified by the Archdiocese’s new “zero-tolerance?? policy for alleged molesters, which was developed as a response to scandals over the past months that have uncovered hundreds of potential victims. As a result of the Cardinal’s swift-handed “responsiveness,” Rev. Spagnolia can no longer live...