#don't tolerate intolerance

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Man I just love dressing crazy. Star-shaped eyeliner, jacket covered in bottle caps with smiley faces, bright pink glasses, piercings in my face. I thrive in the weird looks from strangers. I love being that person little kids think is a fairy and remember for years. I love giggling at myself while I make faces in the mirror.

To me, this is what it is to be punk. To make weird, messy art. To sing your crooked voice as loud as you can. To be the most beautiful ugly. To be that creature 8 year old you wrote stories about in their school notebooks. To be the greatest you you can be.

There is nobody on this Earth who can do you like you. So why not go out and be the best you the world's ever seen?

#plus i have an umbrella with a duck head that i added gitd stars to the inside of and i think that just adds to it #i think on my next one i wanna use gitd paint to add a firework on the inside #punk #punk culture #self love #beauty in the eye of the beholder #ugly is beautiful #wait until you hear about my (correct) opinion that literally anybody can make music #dance for hours a day #crust punk #baby punk #battle jacket #punk diy #be weird #just ask me and i will give you hours on why the world is beautiful #don't tolerate intolerance #punk fashion

[perrysoup]

Refresher for some people:

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society's practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them. Karl Popper describes the paradox as arising from the fact that, in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

#don't tolerate intolerance #tolerance #paradox of tolerance

[animanightmate]

Incomplete screenshots of this excellent Twitter thread about tolerance from July 2017 are doing the rounds on Facebook, so here's the link to the full version:

Continued:

I was only able to find the author's books on Amazon, so do let me know if there's another link I've missed (also I haven't read them yet, to be fair):

#rant #matthew rossi #the nameless #author #queer author #twitter #karl popper #tolerance #intolerance #the intolerance of intolerance #you don't owe unrepentant bigots charity or tolerance #bigotry #twitter thread

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Hey guys there's been some real weird and gross shit going on around me so I guess, for what little this is worth, I just wanted to expressly state again that trans people are all safe and very welcome on my blog. You're good. It's all good. I want you to be happy. I'm sorry that people are stupid and make the world unsafe for you. You deserve better.

Agh this all sounds a bit cringe, doesn't it? I mean it though, and I just thought I'd reiterate.

Trans people = Always welcome. Very kickass of you if I say so myself. :)

#storyrambles #sorry i just wanted to be clear - only thing i don't tolerate is intolerance yadda yadda

[striving-artist]

Hi. I do agree with a lot of what you wrote--there absolutely is a problem of white cisgays pulling up the ladder behind them, no debate on that. But where you're starting to lose me is when you're saying that the 'respectable' gays are the ones who erased their identities to get crumbs from the establishment cake, thereby implying that they're only playacting 24/7 for the small chance of getting at least tolerated. You talk a lot about tone policing and not letting them divide us, but aren't you kind of doing the same thing just in reverse? Because there really are gays who truly want the office job, the suburban home, the marriage. You may find that boring (which is fine), but it doesn't mean they are betraying their 'true' identities or that they are traitors to the larger queer community.

You say we must stand together, and I agree 100%. But that also means including the boring ones among us who just want to work 9 to 5 and have their Big Gay Wedding.

Yeah, I can see where I wasn't clear enough. Thank you for pointing it out. In advance, I'm using Gay as a catchall here bc its what we would have said twenty years ago.

I do not care if a person wants to be delightfully boring. If their dream is to have a white picket fence and a dog and be imperceptibly gay, I will fight like hell for their right to have that. And lots of people who have that and want that, continue to support the fight. Love that for them. Maybe they don't want to be in marches and protests, but they can throw money around, and have conversations with conservatives who would never listen to people like my GNC friends. They're still in it, they were never playacting, I love them. I am also deeply boring, just a different variety.

What upsets me, and what then muddied what I was saying is several pieces, which is probably why it got muddy.

First: the gays who have that life, want that life, and as soon as they got the things they wanted, which were early on the checklist of things to fight for, they dipped. I am a big fan of unions and unity. If you're standing with the group, and they fought for you, you have to fight for them. Even if you won the thing you wanted yesterday, you still show up tomorrow. This wasn't everyone, but I knew at least a dozen first hand who did some form of this. In my head, they are the equivalent to scabs, and fuck scabs.

Second. The ones who wanted the whole community to play act being respectable. The ones who, whether they were or not, want us to all act like we're Neil Patrick Harris, and want to shove the wild side of the community into a corner so they won't embarrass us. I can't even say that they were strategically wrong to take that approach back then. It worked. We got marriage rights. But it also created this facade where if you want to be taken seriously as a leader, even now, you have to be the same kind of boring and respectable. It's why someone in heavy drag has a hard time making any argument without it being treated as joke, or an oddity. Even today, anyone outside of respectable gets framed as a bit of sideshow in media and society. It frustrates the hell out of me, and anyone pushing that crap now is on my list to fight. I get why it happened then, but never again.

Third, the people who really do hide who they are in order to get crumbs. I'm not mad at them, I'm mad for them. They shouldn't have to playact just to feel safe in their own home, but bc of point two, thats the only way they feel safe. And it makes me so mad that it spills over into my general tone.

As a fun(?) bonus. And this is not judgement or attack, just an observation. You're very close to falling into the paradox of tolerance trap here. Anytime someone talks about reverse bias, it throws a flag to stop and read closer because it commonly shows up together. Paradox of Tolerance is about the bullshit idea that a Tolerant Society (or person) is tolerant of everyone, including those who are intolerant.

That is false. A Tolerant Society is in a social contract with each other. I will tolerate your love of weird music genre 3, you will tolerate my love of weird hobby 4. As soon as someone enters who insists that their Intolerance be tolerated, they have broken that social contract, and the rest of us are no longer bound to tolerate them.

In practice for what you brought up: The foundation of the queer community is that we have each others backs, even if we're not into what you're into. I'm not Ace, I'll fight for them. My friend isn't a lesbian, they'll still show up to fight for their rights. I have no patience for, and I will never tolerate, someone who claims to stand under the queer umbrella while trying to shove others out, or define what Correct is. They broke the contract when they stopped supporting the entire group, they're no longer part of the group.

#queer community #I'm sorry I'm so wordy it's a problem #terfs use this a lot #the idea that we have to include them in queer stuff even though they hate whole bunches of us #no; you broke the contract so you can't sit with us until you rejoin the contract #it is a paradox and it is easy to trip yourself on it #please dont' let it #we don't tolerate the intolerant #hands down full stop go directly to jail

[fireheartwraith]

Ah, there it is. Truly was missing some "the apocalypse is a sign from GOD" cultists. Can't wait for when they started ritually sacrificing people to the zombies!!

#god's will #etc #maybe i am religious intolerant #just a wee bit #orgulho de ser crentefóbico #it's just that some people don't deserve to be tolerated #🥰🤗 #hope this helps #in this day and age i already have to contain myself not to punch people who say horrible shit had to happen because it was god's plan an #and it's better this way and whatnot #if anyone tried pulling that shit with me during the fucking apocalypse it would be on sight #@ing the person who said this to me after my dad died of covid #go to hell!! 🙂 #you suck!! #the last of us #the last of us hbo #tlou hbo #tlou #tlou david

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

You, a woman, tolerate a man calling you a bitch, even in a "joking" way? Couldn't be me.

#i can tolerate other women using that word but never men #men don't have the right to use that word imo #its a misogynistic slur #misogyny #man hater era #I'm BEGGING women to be intolerate of men's bullshit

[allysketches]

what's ur opinion on TERFs

not welcome in this blog or anywhere near me in general, in fact, if I see someone like that interacting with my posts it's an automatic report/block.

but I understand the ask and I must make it clear that I want nothing to do with that vile woman who shall not be named as I stand for everything that she's against, and since I can't simply delete her from reality (or send her to prison, since, frankly, that's where she should be) the least I can do is be vocal about it.

it pains me and saddens me deeply that this beloved story that has been for so long a refuge to many people, especially those of marginalised groups and minorities that saw themselves in some aspect of this fantastical world, despite its flaws, and felt empowered by its positive themes - friendship, acceptance, belonging and its power to triumph over evil and hatred - turned out to be written by this terrible, hateful, egotistical person that is now actively harassing and persecuting one of these marginalised group non-stop and with seemingly no consequences... it would be ironic if it wasn't utterly tragic and didn't have very real consequences to very real people.

this simply isn't something we can overlook. she is using her influence and her money to hurt people, and the more she gets the more evil she'll do. trans people's lives have to come first, so above anything, support them, amplify their voices, do what you can. I, for a while now, no longer consume or support anything officially hp, the movies, the books, licenced merch, bc under no circumstances I want to support this woman, whatever small the difference may be at the end of the day...

and, for this same reason, I heavily debated for a long time if I should even post anything hp related to begin with and why I ultimately decided to. I saw how the fandom reclaimed this story and characters and made it their own, working with passion and creativity to transform this universe, each making small differences for the better, to give it more depth, make it more unique, more personal, diverse and inclusive - from short headcanons, to gigantic fics - and so I thought that maybe that's what matters: this collective transformative power, building a wonderful, welcoming community for everyone. adding your own voice to a conversation but also listening to others. going against whatever the creator thinks or wants, in favour of your peers.

it is an admirable thing to love something and not only be capable of acknowledging its flaws, but to try to make it better. 

and for those that grew up comforted by this story, and realised, because of it, that you were not alone, that there is a place for you, that you could be truly yourself and be loved for it: all of this still stands true, nothing that that woman says or does can destroy that, you already yield the power of this message and the meaning of it lies with you, not with her. we can't let the bigots win.

#ask #anti terf #(btw the same goes for any type of discrimination or bigotry #I don't stand for hatred or invalidation of anyone's indentity or their right to exist ✌️) #it's the paradox of tolerance #the one thing we cannot tolerate is intolerance itself #otherwise simply be yourself be kind and don't hurt others and you're welcome here

[coockie8]

Yeah if you need an entire board of doctors and advocates to tell the difference between two things, then the distinctions between said things are not "obvious". If they were, you'd be able to tell the difference on your own, regardless of your knowledge base, as that is sort of what "obvious" means :/

#''there's an obvious distinction between disabled people who need benefits and able-bodied people who are lazy'' #''but we'd need a board of doctors and disability advocates to tell the difference between those two things'' #yeah you might just be stupid and super ableist actually :/ #like my lactose intolerance is *obvious* #regardless of my lack of a medical degree I don't need a doctor to tell me I can't tolerate dairy #I figured that out pretty quick when I get gassy and sick every time I drink milk #''lazy'' vs. disabled is simply not something you can tell visually #hell a non-insignificant chunk of *doctors* can't even fucking tell half the time #how about if someone doesn't wanna piss away their limited amount of time on Earth making someone else rich #we fucking let them just not do that? #capitalist pigs #people who don't understand how we'd be able to survive without money *baffle* me #how do you think we did it *before* money? #How do you think literally every other species on the planet survives without money? #any ''rules'' are made up #humans invented them and we can fucking un-invent them too #I may be a Communist #we're not gonna get into it

[sweet-like-hypoglycemia]

I love going to people's blogs, and seeing huge pinned posts explaining what they won't tolerate, how to speak to them, how to interact with their blog, their political views, views they dislike, and on, and on, and on

Makes it much easier to spot the people I'd never ever get along with!

#i don't tolerate racism or terfs. no shit congrats ur doing what everyone should #text #blog #tldr #pinned #pinned posts #it just feels like self obsession #and weirdly enough they alwags turn out to be the most intolerant rude people #anyhow #rant #like sheesh youre exhausting aren't you? #sometimes it's so outrageously long #and so detailed #like girl i do not care im here to reblog ur fuckin flower posts #no one whos a creep is gonna read this anyhow #so who is it actualy for? #and all the weird pointless warnings #like like cool. just do it and shut up. ur just teaching kids to hide their age #or like if ur a minor i will blog u" lol...ok?

[wizardnuke]

"do you have any trigger foods" no boss i fucking do not. if i have to digest a normal amount of anything i will have a bad time

#happy 6am.Ow #no i have not ever been 'bitten by a tick' i simply am not allowed to hauve nutrience. apparently. #i don't think ive had a tick bite in literal years. you do not know how careful i am abt prospective tick bites #saying this bc Yeah i do have issues w red meat but. it is purely bc i get lost in the sauce abt it. i love red meat. red meat my beloved #anyway Tough Shit! That's Rough Buddy! im going next door for breakfast rn and we are just gonna have to tolerate it #and i thuink im gonna have a burger. sincerely if i do have some kind of intolerance to red meat i will just. live w it. not worth stopping #ppl who r voluntarily vegetarian/vegan r sooo brave. i physically cannot

[idabackwardsintherain]

I'm basically watching this backwards, yet it's still somehow getting worse as I go along. The writers and the characters both seem to treat the use of a mobility aid as an inherently bad thing, too - something they want to avoid for some reason. They're also mad that the ketamine treatment they gave him hasn't permanently cured his pain or someshit?? Since when is temporary relief bad and pain good? Why and how in the ever-loving fuck is it okay to force somebody to suffer to give them "humility" and not okay to let somebody who is getting worse at their job because they're in pain have some relief from the goddamn pain?!

Why are they so fucking determined to not let a disabled person exist as a disabled person? It would be great if he wasn't in pain, but they're not trying to stop him from being in pain; they're just trying to force his square pain peg into a round abled hole.

#house BS #cpunk stuff #cripple punk #i have an idea for a tag for this attitude: #pain intolerance #because patients aren't the ones who need 'pain tolerance'. #ableists need to stop being so intolerant of the fact that pain exists. #disclaimer: i am physically disabled but i don't have chronic pain #disclaimer 2: i don't like house as a person but i also don't like ableism

[hdawg1995]

fuck it, we making kool aid pie.

#ramble #today sucked #love being told because i dont want to play a table top game i dont like #i am intolerant and my intolerance is why i am sad #ooohh sorry mom #never thought that playing a game i don't like #WITH PEOPLE WHO ABUSED ME OR MADE A GAME I ACTUALLY LIKED MISERABLE #means i'm intolerant #and i need to learn to “embrace people for their flaws” #because #and i repeat this is the reason why she called me intolerant #i do not want to play the game #wow #but ya know what maybe shes right #if i was more tolerant of my abusers i wouldn't have cut them out of my life #and therefore wouldn't be alone! #ITS TOTALLY NOT BECAUSE I WAS FORCED TO MOVE AND THEN MY DAD DIED #NO I TOTALLY SHOULD HAVE LOVED AND TOLERANTED THE ASSHOLES WHO EMOTIONALLY AND MENTALLY ABUSED AND MANIPULATED ME #HAHAHAA #i am gonna eat this whole ass pie and go into sugar coma

[vamptastic]

its always funny seeing non-white and/or lgbt ppl wanting to move to my hometown and all the straight white people are like "youll be fine its a live and let live kind of place just mind your business and people will mind theirs" and all the non-white and/or lgbt people going "jesus fucking christ please don't move here you WILL be hate crimed by a dude in a trucker hat and the KKK is still active"

#both are true bc its very like. Well i respect gay people black people trans people immigrants etc #I just don't want to ever have to think about it or change my behavior in any way to accomodate them #like yeah sure you can be queer here just never tell anybody and only talk to other queer ppl via grindr #and yeah sure you can be a POC just don't act even remotely different from WASPs or you're responsible for your own oppression #or yeah sure you can be jewish or muslim just don't expect any form of accomodation for your religious practices #Like yeah there are certainly worse places- interracial relationships are generally not looked down on here for example #and i have heard ppl from different parts of the US tell some HORRIFIC stories about how teens in interracial relationships are treated #and like we have a chabad it's just small and constantly getting threats of gun violence #and we haven't had any gay bashings hit the news but you'll def be called slurs if you're looking too gay in a parking lot #Idk! it's just funny to me how low people's bar is for tolerance when they don't have anything ppl consider intolerable about them

[singthebody]

August has become a useless month and I don't know how to feel about it.

#It feels like August used to be a month of nostalgia #The summer was drawing to an end and the most exciting events were over but you still had no obligations to pick up #The weather is intolerably hot but you don't need to tolerate it yet #A transitional liminal time #Fall with its brisk activity and fresh start is still creeping in #The break between the capitalistic push of 4th of July and summer vacation and the end of year holidays like Halloween and Thanksgiving #I dunno feels like we jump from holiday marketing tactic to holiday marketing tactic and the slow laxness of the end of summer is rushed by #But maybe I'm just getting older and mourning lost youth #Who knows

[homunculus-argument]

The paradox of tolerance is only a paradox if you think of tolerance as some sacred and unconditional moral duty. Some ultimate and absolute law with no exceptions, and if you ever slip into the sin of intolerance, you must repent yourself and beg for forgiveness. Yeah no fuck that. Tolerance is a social contract. You're in the game as an equal player for as long as you play by the same rules as everyone else, and if you don't, your ass is fucking out. You're not entitled to the same respect you won't give others.

"Oh so you all tolerate each other just because you tolerate each other, but if I want to destroy you, then all of a sudden you want to destroy me?" Literally yes. That's the gist of it. What's not clicking. This equation is so simple it barely counts as math.