Carson on Tolerance

A quote on the shifting understanding of the notion of tolerance from Dr D.A. Carson's paper "Maintaining Scientific and Christian Truths in a Postmodern World":

It used to be that tolerance was the virtue of the person who held strong views about something or other, but who insisted that those who disagreed had an equal right to defend their views – the sort of stance picked up in the slogan, 'I may detest your opinions, but I shall defend to the death your right to speak them.' Today, however, tolerance is the virtue of the person who holds no strong views, except for the strongly held view that it is wrong to hold strong views, or to indicate that someone else might be wrong