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I Am Intolerant…Of Illogical Arguments

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I’m not surprised that someone would write a post claiming that Anne Lamott’s superb piece is “intolerant.” Yes, because calling women who get abortions “murderers” is perfectly tolerant, but strongly defending their rights isn’t. You’ll notice nothing in her article about how pro-state violence to coerce women to bring their pregnancies to term faction shouldn’t be permitted to speak, or were to be excommunicated from the Democratic Party (I did not notice her demanding that Harry Reid step down as minority leader); she was just defending her principles strongly. One sees this rather idiosyncratic definition of “tolerance” all the time where abortion is concerned; apparently, the only acceptable way to debate the issue is to simply accept that anti-choicers are right on all the underlying issues, and then perhaps we can debate whether abortion should be illegal or nominally-legal-but-heavily-regulated; as long as it’s not the dread”abortion on demand” position that so intolerantly credits the ability of women to make their own moral judgments.

Anyway, I now forgive Jane Smiley for writing that essay about how Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a vastly better novel than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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