{"id":1853,"date":"2016-12-12T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:53:24","slug":"nyts-nicholas-kristoff-on-intolerance-by-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"NYT’s Nicholas Kristoff on intolerance – by liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE<\/strong><\/span>: Here's an example of what Kristoff is getting at –<\/em> Supposedly tolerant NYC is making the Trump kids\u2019 lives \u2018horrible\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Kristoff, about the only NY Times op ed writer with much worthwhile to say these days. A sensible and tolerant "progressive." Excerpts below; the whole opinion piece is short so hit the link.<\/p>\n

We liberals are adept at pointing out the hypocrisies of Trump, but we should also address our own hypocrisy in terrain we govern, such as most universities: Too often, we embrace diversity of all kinds except for ideological. …<\/a><\/p>\n

We champion tolerance, except for conservatives and evangelical Christians. We want to be inclusive of people who don\u2019t look like us \u2014 so long as they think like us.<\/p>\n

I fear that liberal outrage at Trump\u2019s presidency will exacerbate the problem of liberal echo chambers …<\/p>\n

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Some of you are saying that it\u2019s O.K. to be intolerant of intolerance, to discriminate against bigots who acquiesce in Trump\u2019s record of racism and misogyny. By all means, stand up to the bigots. But do we really want to caricature half of Americans, some of whom voted for President Obama twice, as racist bigots? Maybe if we knew more Trump voters we\u2019d be less inclined to stereotype them.<\/p>\n

Whatever our politics, inhabiting a bubble makes us more shrill. …<\/p>\n

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I fear the damage a Trump administration will do, from health care to foreign policy. But this election also underscores that we were out of touch with much of America, and we will fight back more effectively if we are less isolated.<\/p>\n

When universities are echo chambers, they become conservative punch lines, and liberal hand-wringing may be one reason Trump\u2019s popularity has jumped<\/a> since his election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Here's an example of what Kristoff is getting at – Supposedly tolerant NYC is making the Trump kids\u2019 lives \u2018horrible\u2019 Kristoff, about the only NY Times op ed writer with much worthwhile to say these days. A sensible and tolerant "progressive." Excerpts below; the whole opinion piece is short so hit the link. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7933,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/7933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}