Beware ANYONE who insists his or her way is the only way productive or logical to approach a problem. Beware those who “name-call” instead of participate in mature dialog, & beware of those who find themselves on the slippery slope of radicalized thinking with not the slightest interest in what the rest of humanity is saying.

There are those who NEVER listen to others. They merely wait their turn to talk (sometimes they don’t even do that) but they never really listen to another perception of have empathy for why a certain perception has arose. When we shut down another perception we learn nothing. Learning takes place when we place ourselves in anothers’s shoes. Bigotry’s root is fear & misguided frustration but you’ll never be able to perceive the sickness if you don’t listen to the lesson of those who moved FROM misguided perceptions to a compassionate world view & healing.
There is a difference between that and ACCEPTING the unacceptable. But name calling has little place in a mature dialog. Pacifica Forum found that out when they lost their free thinkers to those shouting Sieg Heil….