{"id":32206,"date":"2017-05-02T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32206"},"modified":"2017-04-22T09:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:44:49","slug":"qotd-tolerance-must-work-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/02\/qotd-tolerance-must-work-both-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Tolerance must work both ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If a person wears a hijab\u2026 or a Nazi armband\u2026 I will indeed judge that particular book by its cover. The individual who dresses thus is not making a fashion statement, they are making a political statement (and Islam <em>is<\/em> a set of <em>political<\/em> values). Unlike a person\u2019s race or national origin, a hijab\u2026 or a Nazi armband\u2026 tells me something profound, because it informs me about that particular person\u2019s world view and their <em>choices<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is absurd to expect such a thing not to matter to others. If I am to tolerate a person wearing a hijab\u2026 or a Nazi armband\u2026 I must be equally free to non-violently express myself by stating my view that the things they represent are <em>not<\/em> just fine by me, and I think poorly of the people who wear them.<\/p>\n<p>I support Joni Clarke\u2019s right to wear what she wants, and to follow whatever crackpot religion she wants. And I hope Joni Clarke is equally tolerant and supports my right to have nothing to do with her, and have complete disdain for her political\/religious values. I do not need or even want her acceptance or respect, I only want her tolerance, because that is all I am offering in return. But unless it is reciprocal, I am not even offering that, because tolerance of intolerance is cowardice (not to mention suicidal).<\/p>\n<p>Perry de Havilland, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/2015\/07\/the-right-to-express-hijab\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The right to express yourself must work both ways&#8221;, <em>Samizdata<\/em><\/a>, 2015-07-31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a person wears a hijab\u2026 or a Nazi armband\u2026 I will indeed judge that particular book by its cover. The individual who dresses thus is not making a fashion statement, they are making a political statement (and Islam is a set of political values). Unlike a person\u2019s race or national origin, a hijab\u2026 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,53,41,11],"tags":[618,198,186,47],"class_list":["post-32206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics","category-quotations","category-religion","tag-clothing","tag-equalrights","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8ns","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32207,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32206\/revisions\/32207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}