Liberal intolerance, revisited by Lawrence Auster

At a blog called Paloustics (I have no idea what that means) the entire text of my 2004 article at FrontPage Magazine, "How to Oppose Liberal Intolerance" has been reproduced. Because many key passages of the text have been bolded, this version of the article may help bring out its meanings in a new way and make it worth a re-read, especially as several entries at VFR today are on the subject of liberalism.

The main theme of the article is that when mainstream conservatives complain endlessly about the double standards imposed by liberalism, they are fundamentally mistaking what liberalism is. The double standard is not some excess or defect of liberalism, which liberals can be persuaded or shamed to fix; the double standard is inherent in liberalism, proceeding from the leftist project of treating unequals as though they were equal. Mainstream conservatives don't want to focus on this aspect of liberalism, because they themselves share a modified version of the same egalitarian agenda..

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