
Originally Posted by
xerxe
Honestly nanashi, I know exactly what you mean. If, as business owner, I was also was confronted with an unrepentant bigot, I'd fire that employee without a second thought. I'd want to keep my workers content and productive, and that involves running a tight ship. I'm there to make money, not waste my time babysitting some dipshit troll. And let's face it, that's what these people often are: disingenuous trolls trying to push other people's buttons and test society's tolerance for bad behavior.
So, how do we maintain a tolerant society while tolerating intolerance? The solution won't come from codifying human interpersonal relations into political dogmas. The personal often shouldn't be the political, and these attempts to politicize and bureaucratize life — to fit complex human emotions into lumbering, top-down systems with precise consequences for imprecise actions — will never be persuasive.