Maggie Gallagher Exposes "Orwellian Doublespeak"
Re: THE MEANING OF INTOLERANCE
The words "tolerance" and "intolerance" have lost their meanings. "Tolerance" used to refer to the "readiness to allow others to believe or act as they judge best" (The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, 1987). Twenty-four years later, "tolerance" has come to mean the "readiness to allow that all beliefs or actions are equally valid" (my definition, 2004).
"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty." - Confucius
Re: THE MEANING OF INTOLERANCE
The words "tolerance" and "intolerance" have lost their meanings. "Tolerance" used to refer to the "readiness to allow others to believe or act as they judge best" (The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, 1987). Twenty-four years later, "tolerance" has come to mean the "readiness to allow that all beliefs or actions are equally valid" (my definition, 2004).
"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty." - Confucius
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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