Tolerance and Arrogance

In his booksViolenceandLiving in the End Times,Slavoj Zizekdiscusses the arrogance and elitism of “tolerance.” To be “tolerant” of the other is to make it bad, wrong, something to be tolerated, and to take a position of moral superiority.

I don’t think peace comes from not having enemies, but rather from not being anyone’s enemy. But how do we refrain from being an enemy? Not by “tolerating” the other, generously accepting and forgiving their badness or wrongness, but by abandoning the p...