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Originally Posted by haertig
That's a very good way to say it. Agree 100%.
But I will say, that other posters in other threads have baffled me as well. My assumption about a forum that is dedicated to reading is that the members are probably of higher than normal intelligence, older and more experienced (probably not too many high schoolers here), and have good logic and reasoning skills. And also, being well-read, are more tolerant of opposing viewpoints. I don't always display those traits myself (I wish I did!), but I continue to be caught off guard when some poster totally blows these assumptions out of the water. [ This paragraph contains my general observations about the MobileRead experience, not about this thread in particular. ]
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One of the more universal human desires is the desire to belong to a group. Frequently, belonging to the group means buying on on the various beliefs and prejudices of that group. Readers can be among the worse when it comes to elitism and looking down their nose at people not in the group.
Well read and toleration are very different things. Of course well read can mean different things. For some, well read means someone who has read "the right" books, for others well read means reading a number of divergent views. We seem to have both here.