1st Edition
Pernicious Tolerance How Teaching to Accept Differences Undermines Civil Society
By Robert Weissberg
Copyright 2008
184 Pages
by
Routledge
183 Pages
by
Routledge
183 Pages
by
Routledge
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Recent decades have seen a consistent effort by the American educational establishment to instruct schoolchildren about the importance of "appreciating differences," all in the name of "tolerance," so as to quell burgeoning "hate." In Pernicious Tolerance , Robert Weissberg argues that educators' endless obsession with homophobia, sexism, racism, and other alleged hateful disorders is part of a... Read more
1: Two Tolerance Visions: From John Locke to PBS; 2: Some Arduous Choices on the Road to Social Harmony; 3: Preaching the Tolerance Gospel; 4: Empirical Foundations; 5: Bringing Tolerance by Criminalizing Hate; 6: Summing Up and a Disconcerting Alert
Biography
Robert Weissberg
