{"id":5773,"date":"2014-05-13T00:06:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T07:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2014-05-13T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:01:41","slug":"from-tolerance-to-the-crushing-of-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/05\/13\/from-tolerance-to-the-crushing-of-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"From Tolerance to the Crushing of Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Michael Sam, a football player made famous for being homosexual, quite publicly kissed his boyfriend publicly on camera in a rather gratuitous manner.\u00a0 Miami Dolphin&#8217;s Don Jones tweeted in response to this &#8220;OMG&#8221; and when asked about that tweet responded &#8220;horrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What sadly, we&#8217;ve all <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/05\/12\/dolphins-player-fined-sent-for-educational-training-after-tweet-about-michael-sam\/\" target=\"_blank\">come to expect to happen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-Sports\/2014\/05\/11\/Dolphins-Fine-Send-Player-to-Educational-Training-for-Negative-Tweets-About-Michael-Sam\" target=\"_blank\">has happened<\/a>.\u00a0 Jones was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitlonger.com\/show\/n_1s1nhp8\" target=\"_blank\">punished<\/a> with a fine and sentences to &#8220;education training&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Miami Dolphins safety Don Jones has been fined an undisclosed amount and excused from all team activities until such time that he undergoes and completes educational training for his recent comments made on social media during the NFL Draft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"align=\"center\">\n<p>Meanwhile\u2026 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Dolphins&amp;src=hash\">#Dolphins<\/a> &quot;educational training&quot; center: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/XNOVUiPdnF\">pic.twitter.com\/XNOVUiPdnF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/statuses\/465984663060619265\">May 12, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cTolerance\u201d was just an excuse to normalize their beliefs. Now that they have power, it becomes a danger, and thus, an anathema.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There is not, now-a-days, a higher state of being for the Left than the <a title=\"The Intoleration of Tolerance\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/05\/12\/the-intoleration-of-tolerance\/\" target=\"_blank\">intolerance of tolerance<\/a>.\u00a0 Even standing up to the right of people to not agree with the queer dialectic just labels oneself as a <a title=\"If You Aren\u2019t Sufficiently WITH The Mob, You are Their Enemy\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/05\/02\/if-you-arent-sufficiently-with-the-mob-you-are-their-enemy\/\" target=\"_blank\">thought criminal<\/a>, and effectively outcast from polite society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While not strictly a 1<sup>st<\/sup> Amendment question, it is yet another example of how a private comment is used by the proverbial pitchfork wielding mob to <a title=\"Private Thoughts, Public Punishment\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/05\/02\/private-thoughts-public-punishment\/\" target=\"_blank\">destroy dissenters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is persecution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is bullying.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dolphones_Educational_Trainging.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dolphines Educational Training\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dolphones_Educational_Trainging.jpg 443w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dolphones_Educational_Trainging-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Michael Sam, a football player made famous for being homosexual, quite publicly kissed his boyfriend publicly on camera in a rather gratuitous manner.  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