Pernicious Tolerance: How Teaching to Accept Differences Undermines Civil Society

by Robert Weissberg

Book Overview

Recent decades have seen a consistent effort by the American educational establishment to instruct schoolchildren about the importance of "appreciating differences," all in the name of "tolerance," so as to quell burgeoning "hate." In Pernicious Tolerance, Robert Weissberg argues that educators' endless obsession with homophobia, sexism, racism, and other alleged hateful disorders is part of a much larger ongoing radical ideological quest to transform...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141280695X
• ISBN13: 9781412806954
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"