BI ArticleCoexistence
In a state of coexistence, the parties agree to respect each other's differences and resolve their conflicts nonviolently.
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Coexistence
In a state of coexistence, the parties agree to respect each other's differences and resolve their conflicts nonviolently.
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Tolerance
Tolerance is the appreciation of diversity and the ability to live and let others live. It is showing respect for the essential humanity in every person.
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A Free Education Resource that Helps Students Engage Across Differences in Better Ways
The guide includes best practices, resources, and recommendations for those working in middle school to college education to promote critical thinking, ideological diversity, empathy, respect, and tolerance of others.
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Yes, You Do Have to Tolerate the Intolerant: It has become fashionable to invoke Karl Popper's "paradox of tolerance" to justify restrictions on free speech. That's just plain wrong.
Tolerance and coexistence are key to making a diverse democracy work. This essay explores one of the big challenges facing promoters of tolerance -- the need to tolerate the intolerant.
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Tolerance
Tolerance is the appreciation of diversity and the ability to live and let others live the way they want to. It is the ability to exercise a fair and objective attitude towards those whose opinions, practices, religion, nationality, etc. differ from one's own. It involves showing respect for the essential humanity in every person.
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Using a Respectful Tolerance Strategy to Allow Groups to Coexist with One Another despite Deep Differences
Democracy is not a system for one side overpowering and oppressing others. It is a system for allowing people with very different values and beliefs to live together peacefully. Tolerance of difference is essential for that.
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Co-existers
Coexisters articulate a forward-looking democratic vision based on constructive competition, balanced with a pluralistic spirit of tolerance and mutual respect
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Building Resilient Communities
Can we coexist as a technologically advanced society without eroding the innate human instincts that enable us to harmoniously weave societies, thereby allowing life to fulfill its magnificent evolutionary destiny?
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Disagreement Isn't Bigotry
A thoughtful look at the miracle of religious pluralism and tolerance that we take for granted and reflections on why we can't seem to apply this to the "culture war."
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This man wants Utah and other states to adopt a "pro-human" approach to teaching ethnic studies
From the founder of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, an in-depth interview and ideas about how to structure Utah's new ethnic studies classes in ways that will be broadly supported.
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Tolerating Intolerance: The Free Speech Paradox
An exploration of one of the toughest challenges facing efforts to build a diverse democracy based on mutual tolerance -- the unwillingness of some people to tolerate political opponents.
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Embrace Pluralism over Racialism
Thoughts on the complex relationship between race-based views of social equity, antisemitism, diversity, tolerance, and pluralism.
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How I Found FAIR
An important analysis of the many benefits of political tolerance and the organization, FAIR, which champions this approach to politics.
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Make America Whole Again
From the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, creative thoughts about how a diverse new political coalition and a catastrophic natural disaster might help us reclaim the unity Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned.