intolerable tolerance

Tolerance is the new slogan under which we are supposed to fight against intolerance, but these two terms are strangely enough not antonyms. In tolerance is the other idea of an alway already intolerable other that we have to learn to "tolerate" not accept or even more dangerously -- question. Tolerance only asks that we aspire to a greater level of repression, whereas I think the problems of racism and intolerance, or even of deep mutual antagonisms can only be addressed with a stronger statement: No tolerance for Intolerance!

There is a campus campaign for tolerance here and while I would like to endorse tolerance, I feel as if it doesn't even come close to getting at the heart of the matter -- which is dealing with the different passions of the student body and their different beliefs as a sphere of political contradiction and conflict that should a public airing!