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Sep 20, 2022Liked by Valentina Petrova

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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I was raised in a large family. Crying babies need comfort, which places the burden of ending the discomfort to other adult passengers squarely on the parent(s) or caretakers, who may themselves be stressed out. It's not always an easy fix, though I once gave a couple I barely knew some relief, by holding their squalling toddler for a few minutes-and calming her down. As for smoking in a non-smoking area, I can put up with it for a few minutes-and leave as soon as possible.

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Sep 20, 2022Liked by Valentina Petrova

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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Haha ! You will be canceled for accepting anything except the most woke pov --- JUST KIDDING.

I'm staunchly independent, mostly libertarian and subscribe to neither political party because they are all insane and corrupt. But I am not surprised by these findings at all, given how illiberal the left has become (irony!). Also among my own friends who are politically across the spectrum, it is ALWAYS the leftists/Dems who drop relationships and even lifelong friendships all too easily over politics. In one case a libertarian (very tolerant and intelligent man) friend is married to a hard lefty, and it's the latter who is insanely more intolerant. Poor man, I think he was that lonely!

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