On: America is moving toward becoming a better version of itself

[mieseratte]

Which is a textbook definition of bigotry. They're intolerant of, thus do not want to read, his views.

[NLips → mieseratte]

Uninterested != intolerant

You can scream your opinion on topic X all day long, but no one has to listen. That doesn't make them intolerant.

[weberc2 → NLips]

He was employed for what, a week? How did The Atlantic's readership find him uninteresting in that amount of time? And anyway, his hiring made quite an uproar with many of the Atlantic's readership, suggesting they were _very_ interested, but also _very_ intolerant to the end that he was fired. The "uninterested" line doesn't float.

[mieseratte → NLips]

They're not interested because they want an echo-chamber. This is just intolerance, aka bigotry, with extra steps.

It wasn't as if the man's writings were just panned. It was a typical social justice morality crusade.

[sgift → mieseratte]

> This is just intolerance, aka bigotry, with extra steps.

Here we have the classic case of interpreting a definition so loose that it gets useless. Everyone is intolerant of something. I'm intolerant of murderers, so by that textbook definition I'm a bigot, but then everyone would be a bigot and we end up with a synonym for "human" - Is that helpful in a discussion?

[mieseratte → sgift]

No, this isn't a case of that. This is the classic Social Justice Jihadi pillorying someone with an opinion that isn't on the approved list. The man was a writer for a week and was removed because he committed a thought crime.

You're just being needlessly obtuse.

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You are equating being pro-life and unconventionally anti-execution with being a murderer.