The Problem With Tolerance in American Society

Tolerance is not simply being declared as a good thing. It's being declared as absolutely what is missing from the opposite, from the other side. Tolerance isn't just a discourse of power. It's also a discourse of conditionality. That is to say you will be tolerated unless and until you behave in certain ways in which I will no longer tolerate you. But surely every political term is loaded. If we use the term freedom, we mean freedom in certain respects. And if we use equality, we have to specify equality of what? That's right.