This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost. For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:
In this case, the old blog post is here: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2016/02/zootopia.html
Related Playlists:
Scripted Reviews Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5BKcEIufNKlS58JHU_glyL&si=Pje0KQqIqOgWGGUI
4 Stars Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x4ltvojxE9mlNcC5mZCwZ3V
Movies that I watched in 2016 Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5n-hhJODZG_iJUw2IBvlqx&si=xXVQN83MRelxHBjk
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Speaking of tolerance, I still remember my British client when I say my opinions on his cr4ps he proceeded to say some preachy stuff on the line of diversity of thoughts and all that. Not that I'm saying he's not supposed to perceive my innocent comments as attacks, but it was quite something (?) since I had always been under the impression that since the West tends to tout its own culture to be free and all that stuff through all sorts of media, I naively assumed the very own defensive dynamics in my own culture don't exist there.
To observe a foreign culture from afar is to see cultural differences, to work with directly is to see cultural similarities.🐺
To be tolerant is to be able to tolerate intolerance (none but buddhist monks can do that well). To use human imperfection as the excuse that justify preaching tolerance is to justify varying degrees of intolerant people themselves (self-defeating and pointless - not to mention it justifies hierarchy as well, might well just be honest).
Tolerance is always predicated on the incentives or what one person wants (that is to say, there's nothing my parents would gain, as they themselves perceive, from not screaming and raising the academics bar I have to achieve constantly; or, there's nothing my countrymen would gain from tolerating other people's minor faults, when they believe to scold (scream) constantly is to mold other people into the perfect form they desire). It's always easy to be tolerant toward things that never affect or matter oneself.
Perhaps the tolerance preachers should always ask the other person to know if they want the same thing as they do or not, before preaching.
>To use human imperfection as the excuse that justify preaching tolerance is to justify varying degrees of intolerant people themselves (self-defeating and pointless - not to mention it justifies hierarchy as well, might well just be honest).
To clarify: What I'm trying to say is that, when people insist intolerance is the exception that shouldn't be tolerated, they tend to jump to the next logical step of thinking "well, we may not have the quality of being absolutely [tolerant], but that doesn't make trying to make other people more tolerant being any wrong". That's what I mean by 'the human imperfection excuse ' - nobody is perfect but that's not the reason to not trying to improve others (so they perceive).
Seems to be the exact logic my countrymen use to be constantly judgy and justify hierarchical authority though (not saying the logic is inherently good or bad).
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