{"id":354,"date":"2017-01-30T11:33:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=354"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:54:36","slug":"selective-tolerance-is-an-alternative-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2017\/01\/30\/selective-tolerance-is-an-alternative-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Selective Tolerance is Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From all &#8230;towards all &#8230; tolerance be given.<br \/>\nWhether black towards white, and vice versa that,<br \/>\nor straight towards gay, and also the reverse,<br \/>\nor woman towards man, or other way around,<br \/>\nor rich towards poor, or the poorer towards the rich.<br \/>\nThe perspective offered here, is true tolerance for all.<br \/>\nIncludes tolerance towards others, who hold opposing views,<br \/>\nwhere all may freely speak, trusting not to be abused.<\/p>\n<p>There is a second view, another tolerance perspective.<br \/>\nIncludes all of the above, but with one exception.<br \/>\nNo tolerance for speech, if something one believes,<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t match the narrative, already preconceived.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s called selective tolerance, a tyrannical perspective,<br \/>\nwith true tolerance the opposite, of this view that&#8217;s most defective.<br \/>\nThis second view is tyranny, it&#8217;s not at all abstract &#8211;<br \/>\nif speech mismatches group think, that speech cannot be fact?!<\/p>\n<p>(The Random Poet:012217<br \/>\nwww.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From all &#8230;towards all &#8230; tolerance be given. Whether black towards white, and vice versa that, or straight towards gay, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2017\/01\/30\/selective-tolerance-is-an-alternative-fact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Selective Tolerance is Tyranny<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-misc-pre-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}