{"id":180656,"date":"2017-02-14T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/14\/we-have-a-contender-for-wisest-thing-written-this-year\/"},"modified":"2017-02-14T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T00:13:00","slug":"we-have-a-contender-for-wisest-thing-written-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/14\/we-have-a-contender-for-wisest-thing-written-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have a Contender for Wisest Thing Written This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Badtux the Snarky Penguin observes, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/snarkypenguin.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/11\/dont-confuse-tolerance-of-people-who-are-different-with-tolerance-of-evil\/\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Don\u2019t confuse tolerance of people who are different with tolerance of evil<\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your mouth to God&#8217;s ear you sterling representative of the Spheniscidae family:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">So precious little snowflake Nazis whine that we liberals preach tolerance but don\u2019t practice it because, well, we laugh when a Nazi gets punched. But here\u2019s the thing: Nazis lost the right to be tolerated when they started piling bodies of innocent men, women, and children into mass graves.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Yes, liberals preach tolerance \u2014 tolerance of people who have never committed harm against others. Don\u2019t confuse tolerance of difference with tolerance of monsters. Tolerance of evil is the exact same thing as condoning evil, and liberals ain\u2019t into that shit.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Also don\u2019t confuse tolerance with pacifism. \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a short read, but a good one.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest, and then punch a Nazi as your Valentines day gift to your sweet Baboo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Badtux the Snarky Penguin observes, &#8220;Don\u2019t confuse tolerance of people who are different with tolerance of evil. Your mouth to God&#8217;s ear you sterling representative of the Spheniscidae family: So precious little snowflake Nazis whine that we liberals preach tolerance but don\u2019t practice it because, well, we laugh when a Nazi gets punched. But here\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,629,464,504],"class_list":["post-180656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-fascism","tag-good-writing","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}