Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of
the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent
religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is
hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other
dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as
political theorist Wendy Brown argues in "Regulating Aversion,"
tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents.
Dislike, disapproval, and regulation lurk at the heart of
tolerance. To tolerate is not to affirm but to conditionally allow
what is unwanted or deviant. And, although presented as an
alternative to violence, tolerance can play a part in justifying
violence--dramatically so in the war in Iraq and the War on Terror.
Wielded, especially since 9/11, as a way of distinguishing a
civilized West from a barbaric Islam, tolerance is paradoxically
underwriting Western imperialism.
Brown's analysis of the history and contemporary life of
tolerance reveals it in a startlingly unfamiliar guise. Heavy with
norms and consolidating the dominance of the powerful, tolerance
sustains the abjection of the tolerated and equates the intolerant
with the barbaric. Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts
as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and
the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, Brown traces the operation of
tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and
civilization.
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