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.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.
Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he canβt play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
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