The New Meaning of Tolerance

Multiculturalists on Nevada's Nye County Commission accused the county assessor of racial "bigotry" for inquiring in an email about the immigration status of the non-English-speaking construction workers hired to build a new county jail. "I wanted to save the county embarrassment" if any turned out to be illegal aliens, said Shirley Matson who had sent an email to the local sheriff. The sheriff said Matson's question was "racist" and her request to check their immigration status was "unconstitutional." So the county commissioners voted unanimously to reprimand her.