Tolerance+Towards+Intolerance?

Tolerant to the Intolerant?
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__**Why I Chose This Topic**__


 * My great Grandpa was from germany and was forced to serve in the army. Like many other he disagreed with the nazi ideology but he had no choice in serving in the army. So he made the tough choice and ran away to Canada with his family. This story complied me to take on this subject of Tolerance. **


 * __What the Nazi's believed:__**



Nazism (short for National Socialism) was the ideology and practice of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (the Nazi party.) The Nazi party had many beliefs of intolerance like socialism for the master race. The "master race" was a concept in Nazi ideology in which someone had to be of light colored hair and light colored eyes. They claimed that Jews were the greatest threat to the Aryan race and they sought to eliminate them from this world. Nazi political strategy focused o n  anti-big  business,  anti-bourgeois , and  anti-capitalism. Nazi promoted political violence,  militarism, and war. They thought of politics of a battle that they should always win. This was the ideology of the Nazis and knowing this information would you be tolerant to there beliefs and ideas?

( Graph made from: [] )

This graph shows the views of one hundred different people on whether people should be tolerant to the nazis and what they stand for. I interviewed anonymous people at my church and came up with the results above. Most people said that we should not be tolerant meaning that we should not allow theses ideas to be thought or to rise to power. Which is understandable after what happened in world war 2. I can also see the other side of the story stating that we should allow it because people can have there own beliefs.

What I Think:
I think that we should not be tolerant if these ideas rise to power and hurt people like it did in world war 2. However, if people believe this but do not hurt anyone just peacefully show what they stand for it is fine and we should learn about there ideas and try to understand why they think this way.