re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

quoth the mayor: “…but people in this country have to start realizing we have to tolerate all peoples’ views,” the mayor added. “That’s preached a lot out of Washington and a lot of other places, but it’s not practiced. Democrats don’t like Republicans’ views and Republicans don’t like Democrats’ views. People have to grow up and need to respect other peoples’ views.

This is not a matter of Democrats or Republicans or of tolerance for differing views. You also have to respect the safety and human dignity of fellow human beings. I can see the display of a Confederate flag in that setting as nothing but a racially motivated threat.

The paradox of tolerance applies here. If you tolerate the intolerant and they gain power, the tolerant will be silenced.