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Doug Overman's avatar

80% for me. No patience for smoking and crying babies.

I think the biggest intolerance for the right are the rights of LGBTQ individuals. Really glossed over on the test. Really, your best friend is a cross dresser? The Right likes to bomb at 20,000 feet. If their friend is LBGTQ, probably OK, but suppress the rest of them in society. Don't forget that this country was founded on racism, slavery, murder and theft of land from Native Americans.

Whatever you do, do not teach that in schools. American Exceptionalism is the rule. Is that tolerance of other viewpoints?

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Gary Boivin's avatar

I scored 100 on the Tolerance Test-and I was being honest. I find the term "woke " to be rather insipid, when used by anyone who doesn't speak Ebonics. My preference for "awakened" may show me to be a grammar snob, but so be it. I do believe that the full story of America's past, as well as the world's, deserves to be taught, so reading the works of awakened authors is perfectly fine by me. All the same, I have friends who are Trumpists and friends who are firmly on the Left, as well as all points in between.

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