Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.
Interpretation
Discrimination is inherently against liberal values, and opposing it should not be seen as an intolerant act.
This quote by Richard Dawkins emphasizes that discrimination contradicts the principles of liberalism, which advocate for equality and freedom for all individuals. Furthermore, it highlights that fighting against discrimination is a necessary stance and should not be mischaracterized as intolerance towards those who hold discriminatory views; rather, it asserts the need for moral clarity in challenging unjust behaviors and beliefs.
In practice
In a public speech advocating for civil rights.
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.
I don''t know if I like communism, and I don''t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program . . .
It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
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