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Sometimes, religions are very oppressive. It's a lot easier to feel magnanimous and tolerant for cultures that aren't close to us because we're not affected; but evangelical christians are like 1/10th as extreme and our leftist culture *hates* those twitter.com/ThisPlaceWhere

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And generally speaking, I am pretty sympathetic to tolerance of highly horrifying cultures if it's applied equally to all of them. If you only accept some cultural horrors and not others, your motivation likely is not actually tolerance but rather being perceived as tolerant

8:46 PM · Apr 28, 2021

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also known as virtue signaling

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You are one of my favorite thinkers on here. I appreciate you out your thoughts out here.

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I think there a bigotry of low expectations in play, which is not entirely without basis Those poor benighted $others don’t know any better vs These people similar to me - they have an opportunity to be rational but aren’t

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I don't think it's fair to say 1/10th as extreme. Depending on how you view some of the domestic terror in the US, it could easily be viewed as extremist Christianity. If anything I view the lack of fear of the extremist religious right as a bigger issue.

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Tolerance of intolerance is not noble, it's morally weak. The ide, "gay people like being stoned to death in other countries, it's the culture!" is like "people liked being enslaved, it was the culture then". Moral relativism = "As long as it doesn't happen in my neighborhood"

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It's like your post about Saudi Arabia and how maybe all women in that culture like being helpless. Only the problem is there is no country where 100% of women are the same. There are always people who don't support those norms, but it they don't they can be killed

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Cultural relativism comes down to saying "I believe in protecting gay people in my country. I don't care about protecting gay people in other countries. As long as I don't have to see it"

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I think this is why people like

@Ayaan

are so controversial. They criticize the horrifying cultures they come from and break the illusion of "in those cultures people like intolerance and punishment!" Cultural relativists don't know what to do in response.

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