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.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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