Originally Posted by Perdita_x:
“So a person (and I'm not being person specific here, I'm being generic) calling someone else a '(insert colour / race / nationality) bastard' is something that should be 'tolerated' so as not to show 'intolerance'??? Really??? I find that absolutely staggering!!! I would rather be branded as intolerant than ever stand by and tolerate racially motivated comments insults!!”
Net posts with exclamations are cheap. You, I and pretty much everyone else with any wit would keep mouths firmly shut while retreating from much, much worse stuff, in various RL scenarios.
"Serious intolerance" is the folk demanding punishment, as opposed to more thoughtfully, tolerantly, wanting something fixed properly. An analogy for that attitude would be schools immediately excluding every difficult pupil instead of putting all those considerable resources into trying to "turn them around".