Tolerance, Respect, Blogging

In light of Amanda Marcotte’s resignation from the Edwards campaign, Heraclitus looks at one of the supposedly prejudicial posts from Pandagon that so outraged Bill Donohue and her other critics on the right. (Presumably many of her critics a) don’t know her; b) don’t know her blogging; and c) didn’t read the posts in question, let alone with an open mind.)

What it comes down to, in his view, is the difference between tolerance and respect. What Amanda was doing was examining the sources of religious belief, and religious belief more generally. And she was doing so with more respect than those who would condemn her to hell, literally. She was accused of bigotry, but in reality she was the victim of intolerance — the sort of intolerance that permits no difference, that abhors difference, the intolerance of hubristic righteousness.

But I can’t do the post justice here. You can read it yourselves here.