Have We Reached Peak Tolerance?

More and more people are done with insanity

They’ve been sneaky… these monsters who have been working at destroying cultures all over the world.  In my lifetime, I saw it starting in the early 1980’s when all of a sudden we weren’t allowed to say Merry Christmas anymore and had to opt for “Happy Holidays” because we wouldn’t want to offend someone.  I’m not sure who came up with that insane demand because I never met a Jewish person, a Hindu or any other religious or non-religious person who was offended if I told them to have a Merry Christmas. Likewise I was never offended if someone told me to have a Happy Hannukah or Kwanza either. Somehow, just like with “covid rituals” the media began spreading this and trained a couple generations of the populace to be offended by anything  they didn’t agree with.  The egg shell walking began.    

Little did we know that saying Merry Christmas was just the tip of the iceberg.  Next came the participation awards (we don’t want someone to get their feelings hurt by losing at a game!).  We moved on from there to countless other “triggers” that we were to avoid at all cost.  Heaven forbid we accidentally use an unapproved word in our speech with one another… someone might overhear and (without our knowledge) get their feelings hurt.  For us guys we were told we could no longer tell a woman that she looked nice or smile at them.  If we are white, we must hate ourselves.  If we are straight, we must not only accept but also participate in, activities we find untasteful to us to prove we aren’t “haters.”  If our children think they are a cat or a dog we must install litter boxes in their schools.  If we don’t want to have sex with a trans person or don’t think they are beautiful and brave, we are hateful bigots.  If we don’t wear a mask or take experimental pharmaceuticals, we hate everyone around us and want them to die. These are just a few of the things off the top of my head that our society has been tolerating.  The list of things we are not “allowed” to say or do anymore has become so long one can barely keep up with it.

We have accepted all of this in our society because we are, for the most part, good people.  We certainly don’t like to offend others.  We just want to get along and live our lives; enjoy our families, our hobbies, our friends, our jobs and just have a decent life in a posse of our choosing.  We don’t mean any harm to other groups or religions if we don’t participate with them.  We just want to have our own traditions, rituals, and beliefs.  If others want to join in, we welcome them, but otherwise, we’re happy to work and play with others then go home to our neighborhood and our clan.  The way humans have done for thousands of years. 

So, how about some “reverse tolerance?”  Why are the *majority* of people (and we *are* the majority) not granted the same tolerance we are demanded to show to the minuscule amount of people who have been pushing this garbage?  Why is it we can’t accidentally call someone sir or mam to find out later we were wrong and have the opportunity to say, “hey, I’m sorry.”?  Why is it that if we say Merry Christmas to someone who doesn’t celebrate the holiday, we must be brought up on charges instead of that person just being gracious and saying, “thanks?”  Why is it if one of us accidentally “misgenders” someone we end up being doxed (or worse) instead of that person just saying, “hey, I prefer to identify as an elephant (or whatever other animal or pronoun or noun or whatever they want to be called)?” 

There are a few people in society that will purposely antagonize people who are not what they consider “normal,” but those people are very few and far between.  Most of us are happy to call people whatever they want to be called.  Most of the people in society don’t want to purposely hurt someone else’s feelings, but we have to *talk* to one another and, even if we talk, we still might think someone is crazy and weird but we’re not going to hate them.  Just because someone doesn’t agree with the choices another makes doesn’t mean they “hate” them.   If a sibling is shooting heroin and likes it, we are going to be very disappointed and hope and pray they stop destroying themselves, but we don’t stop loving them even though we may stop socializing with them.  If a male family member likes to walk around in a dress and wear a wig and makeup, we may wish they didn’t have those desires and needs that seem alien to the rest of us but we don’t hate them.  The list goes on and on.  We are happy to tolerate others behavior and quirks, but we should have the exact same tolerance in return.  It’s a give and take system that works when we all stop letting ourselves be offended and realize that it’s impossible for every single person on the planet to act, think and be the same.  And we don’t want that kind of world anyway!

The people who have been pushing this whole insane “tolerance” agenda on society for almost half a century now have pushed too far.  Many of us who have been “live and let live” have now reversed many of our previous acceptances.  We still don’t care what others do (for the most part), but we now don’t want any of those people anywhere near us.  The people who have been forcing their will on the population in an effort to “make” people accept every kind of behavior and strangeness under the sun  have turned off so many people now that I don’t think it will recover for a long time.  They are creating the very division they claim to have been wanting to stop. 

Personally, I’ve had enough of all of it.  I don’t want to see it, hear it, or be around any of it.  If you are a frothing blue or green haired maniac screaming at the top of your lungs demanding I should do whatever you want, accept whatever behavior you want, etc. I want *nothing* to do with you and I will go my own way.  Whatever cause you believe in has become moot in my eyes because you have pushed too far.  I may have been happy to join with you and even support whatever cause you believed in at one time but now… forget it.  I’m done.  My tolerance has been spent. 

I believe many in society feel the same way.  We have gotten to the point where tolerance for other’s insanity (in our eyes) is a luxury that we don’t mete out willy-nilly.  We are now saving that tolerance for those in our own groups of people who can sit down and have a sane and rational discussion.  We haven’t stopped believing that people should be able live their own lives in their own way and we still don’t care what people do as long as they leave the rest of society alone, but we reserve our true tolerance for those whom we love and who we have found to be stalwarts of true liberty in our lives. Those who grant us the same tolerance we grant them. 

To all of you frothing cultural Marxists out there who have been desperately shoving your insanity down our throats… you are failing.  You went too far.  People are sick and tired of you.  Others like you have tried this in the past and failed as well.  We have chosen to no longer go along with your intolerance.  We are no longer afraid of you.  If we see or hear one of you, at this point we will most likely tell you to have a Merry Christmas just to trigger you and make you come uncorked and spiral out of control because we refuse to be part of your destruction any longer.  We’ve gone along with it for too long and now we’re standing up for ourselves and saying, “No More!”

“You see what power is—holding someone else’s fear in our hand and showing it to them.” Amy Tan