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What about "tolerance"? The Liems certainly have not shown much in this incident, and some might charge that Ignatiev himself was being "intolerant." However one feels about the kosher food-only toaster oven, the charge of intolerance seems misplaced...
...what Ignatiev will not "tolerate." He tolerates the existence of the oven--he hasn't tried to torch it and he wants to remain in the house where it is used. Most who charge him with intolerance say that if he had his wish, it would be more difficult for kosher students to eat at Dunster. In this sense, it would seem, he does not "tolerate" kosher students...
...wish now only that the University not subsidize the kosher oven. Having to procure private funds for the toaster means that the University does nothing special to make culturally specific eating at Harvard easier for kosher students. For Ignatiev, the principle of secularism is more important than the convenience of students who choose to follow kosher rules...
Regardless of the merits of Ignatiev's arguments, charging them with intolerance is overstated, and saying that their expression makes Ignatiev a poor "role model" for Dunster is equally wrongheaded...
...CHARGE that Ignatiev is "impress[ing] his beliefs on all others, we find it difficult to accept that voicing objection is tantamount to engaging in attempts at mind control--that beginning a debate is little more than brainwashing...