Peter Thiel won’t be involved in YC’s work with the ACLU

Re:Peter Thiel won’t be involved in YC’s work with the ACLU by geofft on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:54AM (#13560628)

When did anyone say they wanted to wear the label "tolerant"?

As far as I can tell, it's a label applied by the right to the left to make the left feel guilty. (And that tactic works, is the sad thing.)

If you Google 'tolerant left', you'll find only right-wing folks upset at the left's intolerance. But did the left ever say they wanted to be tolerant?

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Re:Peter Thiel won’t be involved in YC’s work with the ACLU by mseebach on Friday February 03, 2017 @11:22AM (#13560869)

Perhaps you're right. Perhaps it's a straw man that the left considers itself tolerant. I'm not convinced that a poll asking people to self-label would return that result, but I have no data, so I'm not going to try to defend that beyond stating a gut-feeling.

But for the purposes of this particular thread, the GGP said the left are tolerant, and the GP accepted that premise.

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