Tolerance, while often propounded as a liberal concept,
rarely truly exists in anyone--conservative or liberal. Liberals who generally stand
for social liberty and the right to live as one wants would argue that tolerance should
connect more to their agenda than to conservatives'. However, the issue with being
truly tolerant is that one has to believe wholeheartedly that someone else has the right
to live and think as he so desires. While Liberals claim to support that ideal, when
someone who has differing political or sometimes religious views than they do expresses
those views, Liberals and others (conservatives and independents included) often engage
in namecalling and begin to argue why the opponent should be silent or forced to change
his or her views.
The word "tolerance" has taken on a new
connotation in recent decades. It denotatively means an indulgence for someone else's
view which differs from one's own, but lately, its connotation is that one must
virtually take on someone else's views in order to be considered
tolerant.
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