Tolerance of evil defined BroJ J:)
Joshua
9:27 KJV And
Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the
congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place
which he should choose. - http://bit.ly/1vswm3e
(verse link at biblehub.com {N.B. Best online bible study site.})
Joshua tolerated the Gibeonites in a proper
way. Our elites have established a twisted and evil substitute for natural and
biblical tolerance.
Properly defined new words,
"tolerism" and "tolerist", winnow leftie poisonous chaff
from the virtuous tolerance grain. Let the chaff burning
begin,
Book
(and new words) of the decade [5 star Amazon
customer review] / By James V. Batley on July 1, 2014
Rothberg has put a name on the great moral evil
of our time. Through the introduction and proper extended definition of very
much needed new words: "tolerism" and "tolerist".
Tolerism is Fabian socialism on
speed. And we are immersed in red diaper babies, crypto-statists, fellow
travelers, useful idiots, and the lumpen proletariat.
As C.S. Lewis foresaw, the worst of men have
been taught by the agents of the devil to say the lie, "I am just as good
as you are." And our children are being taught to believe the lie.
The best and most cogent explanations of the
peculiarities of our president and his elections, follow directly from the
central theme. As Lewis said about "Lord of the Rings" , this book
about the Mordor of our times is "good beyond belief". http://amzn.to/1iVrG5Q
From
Frontpage author interview at publisher's site:
Tolerism, then, is
the ideology of those who have attempted to cast off the Judeo-Christian ethics
of justice and morality, and the sanctity of human life and fundamental
liberties, and instead seek to undermine the great liberal democracies by their
unwillingness to accept that tolerance has limits and that justice is far more
important. http://bit.ly/1mh5CTP
Rotberg: My paternal grandparents and aunt were
murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and my father barely survived as a
slave laborer there. As a member of the “Second Generation,” I was becoming
alarmed at how “tolerance” was being called the most important value in the
West. My background as a lawyer and as an observant Jew taught me that the most
important value is justice, not tolerance. I knew that had the West “tolerated” Hitler,
I would not be here. And I wondered why the West was so intent on
tolerating Radical Islam and submitting to values inimical to liberal freedoms,
feminism, separation of church and state, human rights and all the other great
values that so many Americans and Canadians had struggled so hard to attain. As I
looked out on political culture in the age of Obama, I sensed a very serious
ideological problem. http://bit.ly/1mh5CTP
TOLERism:
The Ideology Revealed: Howard Rotberg: 9781927618011: Amazon.com: Books http://amzn.to/Tzxq9c
[Book description] The author argues that we
have entered an ideology of "Tolerism" - an unhealthy degree
of tolerance without limits, and an excessive leniency towards those who
represent the most intolerant and illiberal societies. He observes how
cultural and moral relativism, moral equivalency, and political correctness
have all contributed to a modern political culture whose elites and cultural
symbols evidence, not only an undue tolerance of the illiberals, but a
disturbing element of self-hatred, cultural masochism, and delusions about the
difference between social tolerance and political tolerance - and an elevation
of tolerance over the principle of Justice. This original work has been updated
in 2013 and will challenge readers' views of contemporary political culture and
the values and ideologies of many of our elites. /
Comment
at PJMedia review. (May have been scrubbed.)
Tolerance isn't the issue. Denying one's
patriotism, religion, and alliances to curry favor with those who mean to
destroy you is revolution as a thrill ride. It is not enough to
"accept" the enemy, one must adopt them as pets and suckle them.
Advance their cause by being traitors to your home side.
This was done by the seditious left with
communism. It is done with radical Islam.
Scrub clean their atrocities and
lie furiously and slander patriotism and the free market. That isn't tolerance.
That's treason. http://bit.ly/1rTpM5R
PJ
Media » Why Do We Tolerate the Intolerable? http://bit.ly/1pGJCEe
"Tolerists, far from being
the nice, kind, fair, tolerant people they think they are, in fact are the
enemies of freedom and the enablers of totalitarianism."
The acuteness of Howard Rotberg’s book
Tolerism: The Ideology Revealed, now in
its second, updated edition, lies in the ease with which readers will grasp his
coinage. We know what he is referring to as soon as he begins to identify its
salient features, as if the word has been around for a while. Indeed,
the phenomenon is so widespread and so bizarre that it deserves its own term —
and Rotberg’s bracing dissection.
Tolerism is a worldview in which the tolerance
of cultural “otherness” — the more violently anti-Western the better — has
become Western elites’ most celebrated (perhaps their sole) value, before which
all other values, of justice, freedom, intellectual inquiry, or political
dissent, have given way. Rotberg posits that it is precisely the abandonment of
traditional Judeo-Christian principles and the adoption of a pernicious,
unmoored moral relativism that have enabled tolerance (though it is not very
tolerant) to assume its unchallenged status as the absolute virtue. The
particular focus and defining example of tolerism in our post-9/11 world is
Western accommodation of radical Islam: the more violent and hateful the
jihadists show themselves to be, the more insistent the tolerists are about the
need to empathize with them.
Tolerism is not the same as simple tolerance,
Rotberg explains, referring to the history of religious and political
toleration as an enlightened recognition of reciprocal accommodation under
which tolerance is only one among other, guiding, values. Once elevated to the
status of an ideology in itself, however, tolerism is a belief system that
requires the uncritical embrace of otherness not for some rational social
benefit but as a proof of the tolerists’ moral rectitude; as such, it spells
the end of proper discrimination and judgement, and results in the
self-contradictory acceptance and encouragement of terrorists and rogue states
that are themselves murderously intolerant.
Under the reign of tolerism, the
so-called tolerant lose the ability to recognize or appraise evil,
believing that fanatics can be placated if only westerners are willing to
understand their point of view. Efforts on the part of the committed few to
resist Islamic triumphalism are decried as “intolerant,” the mere charge
thought sufficient to end all argument. As a result, the betrayal of
traditional liberal institutions and rights — through press censorship, the
suppression of academic freedom, selective blindness about abhorrent cultural
practices — becomes acceptable, even mandatory, and Islam makes steady inroads
upon its host culture.
The other side of tolerism, as we
see, is a detestation of and determination to silence those who dissent from
the pro-Islamist worldview. Also evident among
the tolerists is an abiding antipathy towards the Jewish state of Israel, and
Rotberg is indefatigable in showing how such hatred is revealed in everything
from wildly inequitable United Nations resolutions to false reporting in the
mainstream press about Palestinian casualties. In Rotberg’s apt formulation,
the tolerist position “expresses more concern about Israel erecting a security
fence to protect citizens than about the intentional targeting of those
civilians, and obscures the fact that there would be no checkpoints and no
fences if the Palestinians would give up their fantasy of ejecting the Jewish
state from the Middle East.” Such evocative formulations are at the heart of
this fine study.
Rotberg buttresses his analysis of tolerism’s
signs and effects with an arresting diagnosis of it as the signature
psychopathology of our time. He proposes that large segments of the West,
including a leftist cohort in Israel, have fallen prey to a mass psychosis
characterized by self-hatred and a deluded faith in the good will of those
sworn to their destruction. He cites Kenneth Levin’s The Oslo Syndrome:
Delusions of a People Under Siege, on the manner in which citizens under
existential threat “often end up internalizing the hatred against themselves.”
While tolerists charge conservatives with
exaggerating the threat posed by Islamic terrorism, Rotberg suggests that it is
far more psychologically likely for people faced with a terrifying foe they can
neither control nor readily defeat to ignore the danger, redirecting outrage at
unthreatening targets. He points out that fear is not an unreasonable response
to random violence by vicious killers. The problem is not fear but delusional
responses to the fear, a turning inward to believe that if we, the terrorized,
can only reform ourselves, we can solve the problem of terrorism. Just as
abused children come to believe themselves responsible for their abuse, and
just as prisoners can fall in love with their captors, so terrorized societies
can come to believe the propaganda of their enemies. The ultimate consequence
of such a cultural disorder is the loss of the will to survive at all.
This book is a diverse collection of essays
united by their common focus on tolerism’s false moral equivalencies, wishful
thinking, naive utopianism, and craven willingness to appease murderers and
hate-mongers. In the best parts, of which there are too many to enumerate
fully, Rotberg exposes and dismantles tolerist illogic and clarifies a rational
rebuttal. His discussion of the historical distortions in Stephen Spielberg’s anti-Israel
film Munich, which erases any meaningful distinction between terrorist violence
and counter-terrorist violence, and especially his analysis of the moral
parallels between the mityavnim of Biblical times (those Jews who signaled to
the Assyrian ruler that they were willing to abandon Judaism for Hellenism,
thus inviting Assyrian attack) and the contemporary role of secular purveyors
of anti-Zionist propaganda such as Spielberg, is particularly compelling.
Also notable is an incisive reflection on the
corruption of Holocaust memorials such that the historical fact of the murder
of Jews because they were Jews is watered down into an inoffensive lesson on
anti-racism that eschews reference to Israel and stresses the need to be
open-minded about Islamist barbarism. An excellent chapter on the symbolism of
Western submission and Islamic grievances over perceived humiliations drives
home tolerism’s encouragement of terrorist aggression. The essay on the ultimate tolerist,
President Barack Obama, whose earliest actions as leader of the free world were
to declare submission to Islam in his Cairo speech and to bow deeply to the
Saudi ruler, is a mesmerizing investigation of the socio-psychological
background of a “multiphrenic” individual lacking a clear identity or core
values. The essay offers critical insights into the contradictions,
superficiality, juvenile dis-identifications, and dangerous naivete of a
media-savvy but morally vacuous and ethically unstable man.
In today’s polarized political climate, this
book will most likely be attractive to readers of a conservative or classically
liberal persuasion. Those who fixate on the crimes of the West and see Muslim terrorists as
misunderstood freedom fighters are not interested in contrary facts and viewpoints.
But there remain yet-uncommitted individuals, and some who are unaware of the
stealth jihad being waged on our soil, who may be willing to consider Rotberg’s
carefully crafted and amply defended arguments. In stressing that “if it were
the early 1940s, the tolerists would not have entered the army to fight Hitler
[….] Tolerists, far from being the nice, kind, fair, tolerant people they think
they are, in fact are the enemies of freedom and the enablers of
totalitarianism,” Rotberg’s moral conviction and clarity of vision stand out. For such qualities as well as for its
first-rate discussions, this book deserves a large audience.
Janice Fiamengo is a professor of English at
the University of Ottawa, and author of The Woman’s Page: Journalism and
Rhetoric in Early Canada (2008).
Related Notes [from my Evernote copy of article]
On Culture and Politics When cultural and
political institutions converge to destroy the national fabric. In a 2009 essay
in memory of Australian anti-feminist journalist Pamela Bone, titled In Name
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