Political Tolerance: Balancing Community and Diversity (Contemporary American Politics, #4)

by Robert Weissberg

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The virtues of tolerance seem absolutely unassailable, at first glance. Yet qualified behavioural tolerance seems to have been replaced by a blank-cheque attitudinal tolerance which threatens individual liberty and stifles free speech. This argument is at the centre of this compelling book. Robert Weissberg takes a serious look at the political shifts over the past 30 years and their effect on attitudes and behaviour. What should be tolerated? Is being highly tolerant a praiseworthy virtue? Is the welcoming of differences too often merely a facade to avoid the charge of intolerance?
  • ISBN10 1452250839
  • ISBN13 9781452250830
  • Publish Date 1 June 1998
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 288
  • Language English