In Tuesday’s Daily, Anat Maytal wrote a column about the Augusta National Golf Club’s refusal to admit women as members (“Masters makes Augusta a public course,” Dec. 3). In short, he said that this practice was intolerant.

One would naturally infer from the column and the statements therein that Maytal himself is tolerant. This could not be further from the truth.

If Maytal had his way, the Augusta National Golf Club would be forced to admit women; their policies would be forced into alignment with Maytal’s way of thinking and their views would be dismissed, written off as antiquated and intolerant. Yet being tolerant mandates accepting, or at least allowing, dissenting opinions. But this is what Maytal and others that share his mindset never do. What they tout as tolerance is nothing more than hot air.

It is an outrage that they should be called champions of tolerance. They are of all men least accepting of opinions not in alignment with their own, for those are the very opinions that they seek to abolish. They practice no tolerance at all. They are tyrants. Their greatest desire is for everyone else to adopt, by choice or by mandate, their own view. They are certainly not content to live their lives by their own principles and maxims and let others live their lives by their own; this they have clearly demonstrated.

Even as they tout diversity, they demand uniformity: Everyone must subscribe to political correctness. It is they — they who will not be satiated, they who will not rest until every last man, woman and child has swallowed the bitter pill of homogeneity — who are the true tyrants, intolerant to the core. Their work will not cease until they have achieved their anti-Western dystopia.

It is an exquisite irony that I, a social conservative, have become a proponent of true diversity. Criticized as they are for intolerance, many conservatives understand what tolerance really means. In this particular case, to be tolerant and to support diversity means to let the members of Augusta National Golf Club do as they please — to let them be different.

Jeremy Alm

Graduate

Mathematics