sorry i got my rhetoric ™️ wrong last time i am just attempting to illustrate the thesis of Tolerance is not a moral precept by Yonatan Zunger so check that out if ur curious thanks babes <3
[Tolerance] is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.
That’s one hell of a justification for intolerance.
Actions are what matter, and there are laws against actions.
I hate of glitter, I wish it didn’t exist, I don’t want it anywhere near me, and I don’t want people wearing it coming near me. One could call that intolerance of glitter. However, I’m not protesting and boycotting glitter companies. I’m not shouting at people in the street over it or harassing anyone. I’m not taking any action at all against glitter, except doing my best to stay away from it. I can only control myself, not the world. I’m still tolerant of the fact that it exists and there are people with a different opinion of me that like it. People being intolerant of my anti-glitter views by knowingly sending me glitter filled cards or whatever, isn’t going to make me more tolerant of glitter, it’s just going to make me think that person is an ass hole and I don’t want them around me. Meeting intolerance with intolerance is not a way to bring the world together, it just rips it further apart.
(While you can draw parallels, this is not a metaphor, I actually do hate glitter. There are dozens of us!)