The Daily Beast busted out another set of rankings in their perpetual land grab for page views, this time grading each fine state in this union based on tolerance, which as you might have suspected, is a tough idea to grade based on a haphazard collection of fuzzy data, but one that they soldiered on in compiling nonetheless.
The verdict for the great Buckeye State was not favorable. The numbers seem to indicate that we are less tolerant than a closeted gay Baptist minister in Alabama, and that if if that gay Baptist minister came out of the closet and moved to Ohio, we would not smile upon him, our brother.
This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2011.
no clevenders are not standing on the street corners with white hoods on oh no they are family and friends that use one another to accomplish there goals by all means necessary i belong to a state that the people would rather see a fight than to give a hug
Hey, we live in a city with no sports championships since 1964. So you can see why there is little tolerance around here.
Doesn’t Chief Wahoo send that message loud and clear? Could it be any more obvious?
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Not hard to believe. I put the least three tolerant states as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.
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Cleveland, OH.
WOW! Stunning I mean stunning. We build new housing for the poor even while the city is absolutely broke. We give contracts to minority companies that are less qualified and bid a higher price for work. We hire at a 50% minority level and we give points on the fire test to kids from inner city schools. We promote by race and we give every single break possible to minority and women owned businesses. We have gay parades we have the rainbow flag on city hall flagpoles, We are the first once major city with a minority mayor,we kill ourselves in Northeast ohio for the poor, the minority (who is really the majority but that is another argument) I sure hope that when they say “OHIO” they don’t mean Northeast Ohio because this area has been working hard for the poor and minorities long before it was PC to do so. That Chief Wahoo comment….Get over it! It could be a compliment to American Indians with the Chief as a warrior proud and brave as much as anything else so get over it.
That just goes to show you that even as broke,unemployed and down on our luck Ohioans..we still have no patience for tolerance,even if we can relate to the hardships we all share in this state
I guess all of us white gentiles, who so willingly give our taxes to people who hate us, should just kill ourselves. I think this is the only way that the ADL will stop their hatred of white gentiles.
“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying civilization”- Aristotle
Since when did the Cleveland Scene become a “news” source, I have always thought it was a piece of crap that you used to look for cheap whores in.
How unexpected…its really a red-state blue-state list. Red states are of course cast as the intolerant ones. This is based on a liberal litmus test. It’s not worth any hand-wringing at all!
Might want to check your math: 46th is fifth lowest, not fourth…
The Daily Beast could be right…as much as you born and bred Clevelanders would like to think this isn’t true…I gotta surprise for you…it’s so true…in fact there is more discrimination, intolerence, bigotry, and hatred here, than it is in the deepest South, and it’s been this way…at least for the past 25 years I’ve been here…as quiet as it’s kept…so “tjohio007″…you should try walking around in my skin( and gender) if you don’t believe it…
Is this surprising? Look at the responses to the crime section.
Maybe we’re just more realistic here, and don’t excuse crime because the criminal is black or whatever.
DAM TJ,TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUTTA MY MOUTH! CDNT HAVE SAID IT BETTER!!!!
Casabdra, wtf are you talking about?
Then again, I’m a white educated male so my opinion is irrelevant, eh?
Save the “white male”
We should build the Indians a comical Caucasian icon and call him honky, let them make it their team mascot and have them a game of baseball I say. After all what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. I for one would not have the slightest objection. They could call themselves the North American Native Honkies and we would see who was the better players over time. Also have a funny heterosexual icon and give it to the homosexuals and they could call themselves the intercourse’s. And we could play them. I think that was the fun that was meant to be had. I guess they never had the money or the gumption to do so for themselves. What fun is it to be labeled for what you are all the time. If you don’t call yourself someone else it only makes it harder to relate to them.