Pernicious tolerance : how teaching to "accept differences" undermines civil society /

Weissberg, Robert, 1941-

Pernicious tolerance : how teaching to "accept differences" undermines civil society / Robert Weissberg. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Pub., c2008. - xi, 172 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.

Preface -- Two tolerance visions : from John Locke to PBS -- Some arduous choices on the road to social harmony -- Preaching the tolerance gospel -- Empirical foundations -- Bringing tolerance by criminalizing hate -- Summing up and a disconcerting alert -- epilogue -- References -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. An

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Toleration.
Toleration--Study and teaching.
Cultural pluralism.
Difference (Psychology)--Social aspects.
Civil society.

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