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From
03/09/2008 15:35:52
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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03/09/2008 15:09:19
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>>You haven't repeated it yet, so it will be the first. Go ahead. After that, if I'm stubborn, you may need to repeat it again.
>
>No problem.
>You said that it is intolerant when ultra-leftists in America are considered as bad guys. I am asking your opinion if ultra-rightists in America should be considered as bad guys or not, and, if they should be considered this way, would you call it intolerant?
>Hopefully, you understand my question now. I would appreciate concise answer.

If we keep what I was responding to in sight:
>Women movement is no different when it comes to being with their own kind. Women's movement is for liberal women only. If your outside of their fense, they have no mercy. Same with blacks. If you're black and run with the Republican crowd, you're an uncle tom or worse.
then you will see the context - intolerance towards those who are perceived to having switched sides and gone to the enemy's campus. Currently, I can't see anyone accused here of being ultra-right as being labeled as a renegade or a traitor; only as one taking the basic (or obsolete) conservative ideas too far. Whereas in the other direction even mention of doing something the way it's done in Sweden provokes angry "that's socialism! they're socialists over there!" reactions (wish I kept the link... it was hilarious).

Just like one would be severely accused of being an agent of imperialism for espousing a view which wasn't sufficiently socialist (something like "why do we need anybody's control of publishing plan"), but only mildly chided for an idea of intellectuals spending summers working in the fields as "that's Maoist exaggeration, cheap populism, we don't need that". One's own tend to be more harsh when one goes in the opposite direction, than when one goes too far in the same direction.

I have misused the word "intolerant". The "Intolerance makes politics" was my attempt to express the need of any political idea to stay, not be diverted or diluted - so it cannot tolerate similar, somewhat diferent, very different or completely opposite ideas, because it would then become something else. It then translates into party discipline, movement discipline, and dealing with renegades. Now you put that in three words and hope not to be misunderstood.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
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