Pernicious Tolerance - How Teaching to 'Accept Differences' Undermines Civil Society

Informationen zum Autor Robert Weissberg Klappentext Recent decades have seen a consistent effort by the American educational establishment to instruct schoolchildren about the importance of "appreciating differences," all in the name of "tolerance," so as to quell burgeoning "hate Zusammenfassung Recent decades have seen a consistent effort by the American educational establishment to instruct schoolchildren about the importance of "appreciating differences," all in the name of "tolerance," so as to quell burgeoning "hate Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Two Tolerance Visions: From John Locke to PBS; 2: Some Arduous Choices on the Road to Social Harmony; 3: Preaching the Tolerance Gospel; 4: Empirical Foundations; 5: Bringing Tolerance by Criminalizing Hate; 6: Summing Up and a Disconcerting Alert

Product details

• Authors: Robert Weissberg
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2011
• EAN: 9781412845793
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-4579-3
• No. of pages: 186
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education