The Intolerance of Tolerance: Our Present State of
Affairs
by Jesús Escobedo
by Jesús Escobedo
The intolerance of “tolerance” cries out for a
hearing. The progressive-statist far left in the United States has reached a
crescendo in our society. It is time to redeem our society, culture, language,
life, religion, government, and politics from the progressive-statist far left
in all of life, especially within the halls of the Christian faith, the halls
of justice, the halls of education, the family, and the halls of government.
Political correctness has accomplished more destruction than what the radicals
in the Middle East could ever dream of. Perhaps
all this has been by design. “Social justice,” “diversity,” “tolerance,” “fairness,”
“equality,” “gender,” “healthcare,” and other such terms have been so redefined
that they do not have significance any more in the arena of ideas or of living.
These terms or words have become the code words of progressive-statists. Most
people, the uninformed, live within a blissful fog of nothingness and have no
regard for truth and the issues of life. It seems that Nietzsche, Freud,
Darwin, Wilson, Roosevelt, Sagan, Sanger, the “war on poverty,” and many such
persons and movements have won the battle of ideas and life living in the
post-modern age. In the meantime, most persons have turned over their living,
life, freedom, and brains, willingly or unwillingly, to the ardent pursuit of
pleasure while the progressive-statists turn up the heat. Many others, victims
of progressivism, are so busy living life and making a living that the “human
din” has drowned them out to the destructive realities statist progressivism.
The contemporary belief in “tolerance” by many
persons today is in reality intolerance. The progressive-statists, men and
women from all walks of life, vehemently demand that society and people conform
to their worldview. If you do not agree with them you are labeled “intolerant,”
“racist,” “homophobic,” and many other such, now derogatory, names. Is it not “intolerant”
of them to demand “tolerance,” when they constantly negate, demean, depreciate,
and despise any point view that does not conform to their worldview? Who then
is being “intolerant”?
Among the many issues that progressivism holds dear
are biological evolution, eugenics, sex, abortion, social justice, healthcare, and
equality. These are some of the issues they champion in their quest to obtain,
reach, and accomplish their many “utopias.” They are proud of the fact that
they care about “justice,” “fairness,” “health,” “poverty,” “equality,” “race,”
and all the other injustices of “right wing” societies (religious or political).
Two of the many issues that progressivism has no
tolerance for are differing points of view about sex and the Christian faith.
The latter is particularly ironic since some progressive persons claim to be
Christian or religious. The other matter, sex, has reached a most destructive
level. Progressivism has redefined sex so as to champion immorality, sexual
perversion, and the destruction of the family and the fabric of society. Any
point of view, or worldview, on these issues, that is contrary to their view is
immediately, and without mercy, labeled intolerant. They believe in
“diversity,” but they do not allow for it when it comes to any point of view
contrary to their own. This is intolerance, an “intolerance” that enslaves
people to totalitarian tyranny.
