Is tolerance intolerant?

[The Grand Nudger]

You'd probably have to live in the shadow of confederate monuments to understand the harm they do.  It's shit like that, that makes us distrust each other.  You can be fairly confident that a Statue Enthusiast™ won't have your back unless you're the right shade of lipstick.

Is trust necessary for understanding or compassion? Is that something we should strive for. Personally I have to trust some people, but I don't have to trust Jeffry Dahmer to understand his motives. I might need trust to show compassion. idk. That brings up intrinsic worth of compassion and value as a person/society into the equation.

It's necessary for the sort of national coming together Benny was commenting on, yeah.  For notions of the most fundamental unity and cohesion and equality to be more than transparent lip service.  Not everyone around a fire singing kumbaya, just the basic expectations.  Just as understanding why and how the things people bitch about as PC is necessary.

I've never known any complaint about the latter to be more than the prelude to some notion that a person feels slighted by not being able to slight another.  Is it really any wonder that we're in the state we're in? The irony of a thread ostensibly about the intolerance of tolerance swirling that particular drain is delicious. No one is suffering from any lack of understanding on that count, and no amount of compassion for the less than compassionate will make them more so.