Tolerance. posted by Richard Seymour

You could time them with a retirement clock: the Tories' drearily predictable attempt to fire up the grass roots membership (or at least, the few who will make it through the winter without popping their clogs) with some stern language about Britishness and sending "them" "back", has been quickly met by a nicer version of bigotry from Jack Straw .

All of which leads me to the conclusion that Muslims and gays of the world must unite. Non-sequitur? Bear with me. I've already staked my territory on "multiculturalism" . Here's a word or two about "tolerance" from a gay fantasia that may just as well have been written by and for Muslims today.

"That's just liberalism, the worst kind of liberalism, really, bourgeois tolerance. And what I think is that what AIDS shows us is the limits of tolerance, that it's not enough to be tolerated, because when the shit hits the fan you find out how much tolerance is worth. Nothing. And underneath all the tolerance is intense, passionate hatred." (Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Part One).