... in reality, THEY are actually the bigots.
Free association and "No Trump Supporters" bigotry
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/02/20/free-association-and-no-trump-supporters-bigotry/
"Look at me, I'm brown. I'm a woman. I am somebody who is heavily reliant on Obama's pre-existing condition clause," Kian told Smerconish. Trump has said in the past that he hopes to sign a bill overturning Obamacare, though he has suggested he hopes to keep the pre-existing conditions clause.
Kian told Smerconish that allowing a Trump supporter as a roommate would result in her home becoming a "hostile environment" and a "political battlefield" because she believes a Trump supporter is "by all means a bigot."
As Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." Kian's explanation does indeed "break [the] needle off [the] irony meter," as Twitchy's headline states for that reason. One can even argue with some justification that this hard-Left, broad-brush antipathy about any kind of heterodox position to the progressive norm du jour is precisely what caused voters outside of the urban-coastal enclaves to vote for Donald Trump. Kian and others refusing any engagement with Trump supporters have become so blinded by their progressive moral outrage that they see their own bigotry as a peculiar form of tolerance.
However, Kian should be allowed to indulge her political principles when it comes to commerce, regardless of how ridiculous those may or may not be. If she does not want to rent to Trump supporters, Republicans, or conservatives, no one should force her to do so, especially not government. She sees those interactions as hostile situations, and even though it's certain that Kian is the source of those hostilities, she should be allowed to exercise her own poor judgment in her commercial choices.
But while we're at it, that freedom should be extended to everyone - including the bakers, florists, and photographers who choose not to participate in events which conflict with their religious principles. We do not necessarily have to agree on whether we think that it crosses a line in religious faith, just as we do not have to agree with Kian's prejudiced view of Trump voters. We should, however, agree that people have the right to associate freely, and to the free exercise of religious belief in all aspects of their lives, not just within the four walls of a church, temple, or mosque.
That's tolerance, even if Kian doesn't understand it. ...
Quite simply, Kian is too willfully stupid to understand much of anything.
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