Essay On Intolerance

Intolerance has been a key part of American history since the beginning of time. Almost all conflicts and other important dates had to do with intolerance. The official definition of intolerance is “lack of tolerance; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect opinions or beliefs contrary to one 's own.” My definition of intolerance is someone who doesn’t tolerate other people’s beliefs and lifestyle. Some of the most important dates where intolerance was a key part was in the Holocaust, slavery, and the Civil Rights Movement. One of the most frightful experiences was the Holocaust, where about six-million Jews were killed out of the nine-million that were originally in Europe, making it one of the most harrowing ordeals in history. Most Jews did not live to tell the story of the horrible concentration camps and ghettos. Renie Inow was one of the many people who were affected by the Holocaust. Her brother, Alfred, was forced to work in the camps. Renie did not have to work in the concentration camps or

In the world, ISIS is an organization that is trying to take over the world. The United States of America is trying to get rid of ISIS because they are not tolerated in this society. ISIS has kicked out tens of thousands of people out of their homes, just so that they can say they rule the world. There are many other power hungry people who would hurt or kill just to get power, but our world will not tolerate them. The intolerance in our society was almost non-existent, except for the fact that lots of people like middle and high schoolers toilet paper and egg people’s houses. Toilet papering has been banned from our society, yet people still do it, and it’s intolerable. This society should set an example for others, but it’s not doing a very good job in vandalism. Overall, there is a lot of intolerance in our society, and most of it is not good, so people need to come up with a way to fix