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I think it's crazy how so many left wingers I know have real trouble with diversity yet claim to be the most for diversity.

Unfortunately when some people talk about diversity, they are referring to those of different races, sexual identity, and country of origin. It's easy to tolerate those things. Why in the world would I care what someone's skin color is? Or who they prefer to have sex with? Or what country they were born in? I don't care about that. No normal person should. Those are surface things that don't impact me or my life whatsoever.

Diversity of thought is much more difficult to tolerate. People with different religious beliefs, different values, and different political opinions. That right there is real diversity. And tolerating and respecting all people regardless of those things is real tolerance, imho.

This is what the catch-22 is. If your (global you) thought or belief is that gays shouldn't have the same rights, or that police killing black people without consequence is tolerable, or that women and poor people should be deprived of reproductive choice, or that we should round up and deport 11 million people, or that white nationalism is a position worth legitimizing and supporting, then your opinion is deleterious to a free and open society.

I will support anyone's right to have those opinions, but I will be vocal in my dissent and my attempts to delegitimize those opinions. If that makes me intolerant, so be it. I am, by the same token, intolerant of attempts to evangelize any beliefs in schools or science denial.