One of my cousin's kids came home from high school one day pretty upset. The teacher had the kids go around the room talking about themselves to allow them to get to know each other better. One of the girls had introduced herself and said she was a witch. What upset my cousin's kid wasn't as much the witch intro as the way everyone else reacted. They were absolutely fine, including the teacher, with having a witch in the class. Tolerance doesn't mean what it used to.
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Your cousin, and family, are really pathetic. Get th Hell over yourlselves. You're not "better" than everyone else, and you're cousin would be fine if she wasn't raised by dumbass Fundies. Really.
"Tolerance doesn't mean what it used to."
Yes, there are no stakes and burning involved now. How truly horrible.
good for the girl, good for the class, good for the teacher - too bad for you! Homeschooling is a choice for your family!
"Tolerance doesn't mean what it used to"
Ok, I'll bite. What did it USE to mean?
Goofing off? Smoking pot?
"Tolerance doesn't mean what it used to"
No, tolerance never meant what you thought it did.
You thought it meant we only had to tolerate you , not that you had to tolerate other people.
More likely than not the kid was playing make believe and everyone in the class but your cousin understood that. No doubt your family is a bunch of crazy fucks who taught him that witches are real and sleep with Satan or some other absurd nonsense until you people warped his brain.
In elementary school this kid once stood up and introduced himself by saying; "Hi, my name is Chris and I'm an alcholic." Obviously he was kidding and it got a laugh, but had your stupid ass cousin been in that class he'd probably run home, upset that an 8 year old is drinking and everyone is fine with it.
That said, even if the kid's parents believed in witchcraft, every rational person would be fine with it because they know magic is not real.
Yes, the difference is: Now there actually IS tolerance! Get used to it, it's much better than burnings, hangings, and being crushed by rocks.
I bet the times her cousin's kids come home from school goes something like this:
KID: "Waaah! The teacher said we have to read three whole chapters by the end of the week!"
One of the girls had introduced herself and said she was a witch.
OH NOEZ! TEH DEBBIL!
What upset my cousin's kid wasn't as much the witch intro as the way everyone else reacted. They were absolutely fine, including the teacher, with having a witch in the class.
Good on them. You should rather they burned her at the stake?
"Here at St. Agatha's School of Perpetual Suffering and Bait Store, we're proud of our progressive social policies. As a self-admitted witch, you get to choose between burning at the Happiness Stake, our padded dunking stool, live burial in our Box o' Fun, or plain ol' classic tarring and feathering."
Tolerance doesn't mean what it used to.
You mean like how tolerance once meant that blacks could live in some of the same places whites did, as long as they had different restaurants and different water fountains? Or like how Christians are tolerated as second-class citizens in some Muslim countries now?
Fuck off to Mordor, Frodo.
Tolerance means exactly what it always did. So do self-righteous bigotry, hypocrisy, and Pharisees. Rapture still means enjoyment to the rest of the world outside of a few nutcases who misread scripture and fit those three definitions.
Sir Bedevere: What makes you think she's a witch?
Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
Yeah, remember when tolerance meant throwing rocks at people, or burning large crosses on their front lawn, or hey, burning the people themselves? When did they change the meaning of tolerance to, "you mean me no harm, I mean you no harm, isn't mutual non-intrusive existence a wondrous thing"? Fucking liberals, I tells ya!
Tolerance doesn't mean what it used to.
No, it's always meant the same thing. It's just that we're extending it to more people now.
I idly wonder if the kid said 'witch' or 'Wicca?'
But mostly I wonder if the cousin's kid was upset when he came home, or some point after telling his parents that he knew a witch (Wiccan)?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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