Tolerance presupposes the tolerator’s power over the tolerated

Evidence

Tolerance is always expressed towards the tolerated, as I have argued elsewhere, from the tolerating agent’s position of power. I have the power and position to tolerate you. I am active; you the tolerated passive, powerless to affect me in my tolerating save to get under my skin, make me even less accepting of your distinction. My social power to tolerate turns on all those like me likewise disposed towards you. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 835

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines tolerance structurally as an asymmetric power relation rather than a virtue.
• XREF: connects to: Tolerance and even abstention also violate the Other’s freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1008; Tolerance neutralizes subversion by transforming radical ideas into fads. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 221; Toleration itself can pressure minorities to conform and assimilate — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 525