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I read this as Gen Z doesn’t tolerate the boomer/older Gen X intolerant/racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic bullshit that younger Gen X/Older Millennials had to, and a lot of folks receiving this deserved pushback don’t like it.
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Nailed it, except that older Gen X and boomers who weren't part of the intolerant majority ALSO had to put up with all that bullshit.
Very good point that I should have included. Thanks!
Thus...proving the point? "If a person thinks I can't handle disagreement, I bet it's because they're some kind of asshole nazi or something! It would be wrong of me to tolerate a difference of opinion with them!"
If the only disagreement you can tolerate is irrelevant minutia, then you aren't actually tolerant. "I'm totally tolerant, as long as our opinions don't differ on race, culture, gender, sexual relations, work, religion, or politics" is pretty weak sauce.
Congrats you described the paradox of tolerance.
Yeah if someone thinks I and people I'm friends with shouldn't exist than I'm not gonna want to work with them. American Republicans are actively trying to remove any legal protections or rights trans (and LGBT in general) people have, and anybody who shares their views is helping them along. Why on god's green earth would I see that as anything less than an existential threat?
if you hold a view that is intolerant, I will not tolerate you. simple as. we don't have to agree but you can have basic fucking decency (don't be racist)
You guys literally couldn't be leaning into Gen-Z stereotypes any harder.
"Some guy says Gen-Z doesn't have the ability to respectfully disagree."
"Man FUCK that guy, I bet he's an intolerant/racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic piece of shit, and that's why he can't get along with us, because it's definitely not our problem!"
"Uhh, it sorta feels like you're demonstrating that you really don't have the ability to disagree."
__ __ __ __ __ "Lol just cuz I reported a guy who said a thing that hurt my feelings, does that mean we can't be friends?! Lol jk fuck you too buddy!"
No, sure, you're totally right, you guys are a real delight to have in conversations and debates.
Interesting examples for irrelevant minutia. Pretty sure a lot of those things would be very important, particularly race, gender, and sexual orientation.
I mean those are pretty major things, especially if you're part of one of the affected minorities. If I were trans I wouldn't really want to work with a coworker who insists on misgendering me and makes a fuss out of me using the right bathroom.
If it doesn't come up, it doesn't come up. People can agree to disagree, also. But there are also cases where the disagreement is so fundamental that it makes it pretty hard to respect someone or even want to be in the same room as them.
Sure, it's supposed to be major things.
There was a point where Europeans were massacring and torturing each other over religious differences, for centuries. Protestants and Catholics considered each other literal heretics, and mortal enemies.
Then they developed this idea of tolerance, and decided that your religious beliefs were your own business. And that worked amazingly well! We can all just get on getting on. This was a huge deal, protestants tolerating catholics and vice versa was every bit as hard as trans people tolerating transphobic people. But it worked, and eventually the differences faded into irrelevance.
And it turned out that the same attitude was great for progress in general: who you love and who you sleep with is your business, and after a decade or two: you know, we've all got pretty used to the idea of people being gay. They wanna get married? Sure, I don't see why not. Tolerance was the basis of most progress in the past few centuries.
And now Gen-Z (or probably just terminally-online people, but as a ratio that's more of Gen-Z than any earlier group) wants to flip the table. Tolerating 'intolerance' is practically a crime! Intolerance, BTW, is when you don't have the correct set of opinions. People who don't have the right opinions are monsters, and must be harassed, deplatformed, fired, etc. The wrong opinions are violence.
I've seen reactions to 'bad' opinions that I would call hysterical.