What is "TOLERANCE?"

I AM TOLERANT!

So my culture is absolutely the best, and your culture is only relevant insofar as it relies on my culture for justification. You might think that I sound like a neo-con, but actually, I represent a broad spectrum of American political society, predominantly exhibited on the left (at least as far as being naive goes). In addition to this, while I (in the interests of multi-cultural ideology) am willing to allow that my culture should not infringe on yours, please allow me to append a clarifier:

My culture shall not intrude on yours except to the extent that it is a reflection of "universal" human values/rights. While I do recognize your right to wallow in the mud in search of grubs, I have to chastise you for female circumcision (your practice of removing certain parts of the clitoris).

Please, Lord, save us from the ideological, intolerant left!

So the questions would be as follows:

1) What do you view as tolerance?

2) In the context of the demonstrable hypocrisy of traditional "liberal-globalistic trends of 'multi-culturalism'" do you view yourself as a cultural liberal or a cultural conservative.

3) Finally, do you view the monopoly of the term "tolerance" by individuals who only seek to exploit it according to their own interests (in my opinion the left, as I have effectively demonstrated in other posts; indeed, when have you ever heard a conservative make a mockery of the word tolerant?) as an obscuring factor in a greater understanding of the American political dialogue?

I reserve the right to edit this post, as I am barely hanging on to consciousness by a thread--darn lack of sleep.

PLEASE, please, I beg all of you to read the following:

1) Though I don't view the modern left as the sole manifestation of ignorance, it's portrayal of itself as the arbiter of tolerance is laughable at best, and dangerous to the ideological dialogue at worst.

2) Please, PLEASE remember that we are all biased (a fact more forgotten on the left than on the right). Thus, we are all given to unsubstantiated demonizing, personal, and wholly irrelevant attacks on those who disagree with us. The sooner we all can come to grips with this, the sooner we all can develop a mutual understanding. While self-serving patronization is recognized as historical perspective, however, the goal of mutual understanding is out of reach.

-Akolouthos

I couldn't agree with you more. I think you expanded on my original post, and clarified that which I should've clarified. Aside from agreeing with you, I feel there is nothing left to say .

-Akolouthos

Tolerance is wrong word, you can tolerate something which is wrong, or somebody who did wrongs.

Respect is more appropriate word. You should respect others life style, what they are doing not wrong, you should not tolerate them but respect.