Reply #36: Right there with you [View All]

[Prophet 451]

I'm not sure where the idea got started that being "tolerant" means you must tolerate the intolerant. I reckon it was one of those "gitcha" right-wing talking points, a way of accusing liberals of having no morals by saying we'd tolerate everything except intolerance. Like the schoolkid going "Nyah, you're not so tolerant after all".

Fuck that shit. That's just playing word games. That's just trying to excuse their own bigotry by painting us up to be bigots too, it's bullshit. It does nothing to address the problem, just tries to pretend it's not a problem in the first place.

I'm no fan of the diplomatic visitor with the unspellable surname but I reserve the right to hate Bush as well. I'm not going to choose between Hitler and Stalin, that's a fool's bargain. The only appropriate response is "a pox on both their houses".

I suffer from clinical depression. I like my hatred (although I prefer to say "anger"), it keeps me level, it let's me drown out my self-hatred with fury. That's a dangerous way of coping, I know but I find the rage sustaining. If teh world runs out of racism and homophobia to be angry about, then I'll move onto poverty and if that ends, I'll move onto something else. Clinical depression (MDD in the States) is often an excercise in finding ways to put off suicide one day at a time. Sounds crazy but mine is that I'm too pissed off to die yet.