Tolerance, we've been told, is a virtue. We should be tolerant of anyone and everything. If people want to castrate their children because they claim little Timmy "identifies" as a little girl, despite only being 10, we're supposed to be tolerant. We're supposed to celebrate it, even.
The Left has preached tolerance for generations now. They've demanded we put aside our own principles time and again, accept that people are going to do things we find morally repugnant, and we shouldn't just shut up about it but praise it.
Yet it's funny because of just how intolerant the Left is.
Recently, actress Sydney Sweeney has become the darling of the Right, and mostly because she simply refused to apologize for something she didn't do wrong. Her American Eagle jeans ad ruffled a lot of feathers, and for no reason. It wasn't like saying "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans" meant that only she had great genes, for crying out loud. It was a celebration of attractive celebrities, like we used to have when this was a better nation.
But in the midst of the turmoil surrounding that ad campaign, she became the target of scrutiny. It turns out that Sweeney is a registered Republican. She never talked about politics publicly, even when a recent interview tried to pressure her into apologizing for nothing, she simply held her own.
Despite that, her Euphoria co-star Zendaya, a vocal critic of President Trump, refuses to do press with her regarding season three of the show, simply because of her politics. Even if the refusal isn't personal, but out of an abundance of caution regarding her own career, the truth is that people can't tolerate disagreement, and they can't tolerate someone not being intolerant of disagreement.
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It's not just in Hollywood, either.
Former Democratic operative Evan Barker left her party and published a piece at The Free Press about why she was voting for Trump. Today, she published a piece about why she doesn't regret it, and touched on the backlash she's received.
All around us, we've seen examples of how the party of tolerance is intolerant toward anyone who disagrees. This is without getting into the assassination of Charlie Kirk or the leftist nutbars that celebrated it.
My question is: how can we connect with these people in a way that would bring us back from the edge of a potential civil war? They can't handle an actress not being a rabid leftist. They can't handle someone who decided a secure border and less woke from the White House would be a good thing. They freaking killed a guy who had the nerve to want to talk to people.
How can you find a middle ground with people who only have their middle fingers?
The party of tolerance is tolerant of anything and everything they agree with and are ready to burn people at the stake for refusing to toe the line. Nothing has changed in years upon years. Nothing is likely to change, either, and instead of bridging the gap, even between friends and coworkers, we're just seeing more division.
It's not even a case of civil disagreement; it's purging everyone out of your life for refusing to spout utter nonsense masquerading as a political ideology.
The party of intolerance is just as it's always been. They're just showing their stripes far more often these days, it seems.
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