In fact, indifference squats between tolerance and acceptance and leads to systematic micro-aggressions against marginalized groups.
Unfortunately, there are some firebrand clerics who ignore that playbook and use their pulpits to inspire aggression against other religious groups.
The Burmese government and its military should be called to halt all aggression against the ethnic groups in the country's periphery and to include them in the peace process regardless of whether they signed the NCA.
The Wolves rev themselves up as they prepare to test their mettle against groups with other nicknames suggesting intimidation and aggression: the Hornets, Extreme Explosion, Blue Storm.
Article 19, an advocacy group, said 330 "aggressions" against journalists were reported in 2013, compared with 207 the year before.
The group reported that "aggressions" against journalists — ranging from threats and physical attacks to arbitrary lawsuits — rose to 254 cases in 2014, 46percentt more than the figure reported for the previous year.
But, according to the London-based free expression group Article 19, up to 70% of aggressions against the media are government-inspired.
The real cause for concern is that, as the Sarrazin and Wulff incidents show, cool-headed politicians are discovering that they can divert the social anxieties of their voters into ethnic aggression against still weaker social groups.
A spokesman said: "Saleh's speech is a coup against our alliance and partnership... and exposed the deception of those who claim to stand against aggression". The two groups had been fighting the government of current President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi together for nearly three years under an uneasy alliance.
We hear about microaggressions (unconscious, apparently innocent acts of aggression usually against minority groups) but these micro-moralities such as whether to go to Starbucks – the other side of the coin to microaggressions – seem to cause as much disharmony.
Aggression aside, the groups have a sense of humor.
