Can the Imperium of Man retain its famed intolerance while still giving expression to our contemporary liberal values?

Can the Imperium of Man retain its famed intolerance while still giving expression to our contemporary liberal values?

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The Imperium is a nation that has progressed beyond race, where all humans are united together regardless of skin color.

I'd say they're pretty damned progressive.

>I'd say they're pretty damned progressive.

In some regards, but let's not forget that they mostly give subject planets free reign. As long as tributes are paid, psykers are hunted, and heresy avoided, things like slavery are a-ok.

Are you a loyal citizen of the Imperium with no mutations? Then we don't care what your skin color is or who you sleep with in your four-hour daily rest period. Now hurry up and euthanize those mutants, you must process at least one hundred per hour. Inefficiency will be severely punished.

no

You make a valid point, but what about things like freedom of religion?

Is there some way to thread the needle? Can we have both a welcomed suffusion of different religious groups while still retaining the Cult of the Emperor?

There are different sects, but no different religions.

Is it fair to say that substantial friction exists between the different factions?

well, its a parody of society from the 70s/80s so...no?

Yeah probably

>its a parody of society from the 70s/80s

It may have begun as such, but should it remain rooted in its creative influences? Has it, or have things drifted?

Every single evil imaginable is accepted in the imperium, including your contemporary liberal values. So long as there's no heresy, tithes are paid, you don't interfere with the black ships when they visit, and you don't spend the emperor's currency without a reason, everything is fine.

Is this "Libertarianism"?

should it? no, absolutely not. things that don't change die.
has it? to a degree, yes. it still has the oppression and rejection of innovation, creativity and art as the death of the human soul, but now it REALLY pushes for the "kill everything that's different from us" and "mistrust those on your side if they disagree with you even slightly" aspects.
have things drifted? not enough. it was in limbo for decades, and while it was fleshed out, instead of -advancing the plot as is- they just wanna reboot the galaxy, and that's the laziest excuse i can think of for a major company to just issue "new" iterations of the same old designs/stories.

Yeah because some only "officially" worship the Emperor take the cult mechanicus. Now doesn't mean all tech priests don't believe the Big E is the Omnissiah but not all do(just not out in the open). And even different planets will have different ideas on what is right to do, and honestly as long as they say Big E is god and don't worship chaos the smaller details don't really matter.

>our contemporary liberal values
I don't have any liberal values.

Fuck off libtard.

No. "contemporary liberal values" is literal chaos apologetic.

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No.

>our
your, nor our, you communist faggot

Unfortunately, even Lefty/Pol/ is still /pol/ and needs to stay in its containment board.

Modern neoliberalism is pretty intolerant on a grand scale. Most liberals regard animals, and many different groups of humans as being "lesser"

Just make them hypocritical.

Not really. Libertarianism is simply governance that emphasises freedom over all other things so in other words, no governance at all.

The imperium is hyper libertarian and progressive except for the brutal police state, extreme human nationalism and theocracy.
It doesn't fit well in the modern left/right divide, it's both more progressive and incredibly authoritarian compared to modern societies.

Was there substantial friction between Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism?

Is there substantial friction against Jonestown-style cults?

Compared to the IoM you probably do. If not, fuck off back to double-storm front you double-nazi.