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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Nov 10th, 2011 C block notes on Tolerance continued.

Tolerance:

2.  cont

All people with physical and mental deviations are driven to the Fringes.
Modern society tolerate deviations, but people are still out of their comfort zones because people judge by appearances rather than personality.
Telepaths or “think togethers” are usually persecuted – Sealand woman.  157
In history people have been persecuted b/c common people have feared their abilities.
Eg:  witches
Sealand woman believes that her kind is a superior variant.  196
When blacks were discriminated against, whites believed that they were superior.

Waknuk’s intolerance of deviations

Example of Sophie’s life as a result of persecution b/c of her deviation - intolerance

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