Tolerance 4.2

In lesson 4.2, I learned that there is a bigger context to “tolerance” than I realized. I used to think that tolerance was just accepting that people are different and we just live in sync with them, but I learned that it’s more than that. In Love the Sin, it discusses how tolerance is not the same thing as freedom, but in practice it is “exclusionary, hierarchical, and ultimately nondemocratic”. That even though the United States promotes religious freedom, it’s also a Christian nation. It’s interesting to think of tolerance as the reason for the us/them relation and mentality because it considers people who are “other” in the United States as not “American”. I really found it interesting that tolerance doesn’t allow people to address the injustice that the groups of minorities will face, and that people who are different from the majority must choose to either identify with the general public or face violence.