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Feel free to actually cite anything I’ve said that you see as somehow being in conflict and I will explain them to you.

How about I don't waste a bunch of time wading through your apologia for bigots just so you can pretend that bigotry is just a harmless difference of opinion that never harmed anyone.

You’re arguing with a near 50 year year old man who spent 5 years in prison in the US for being black at the wrong place at the wrong time.

You're arguing with someone who won't disclose biographical information on the internet as a replacement for defensible ideas. It cannot be verified without a serious breech of privacy and it's a cheap way to argue.

You sound like a kid who hasn’t had much actual experience with genuine intolerance

Anyone who disagrees with you must be younger than you and therefore wrong. Why not? After all, in this thread you've argued that misgendering and deadnaming trans people is tolerant behavior, and lamented at length that you can no longer call disabled people slurs without pushback. I'm wasting my time with you and should have seen that from the beginning. This is the last two cents' worth you're getting out of me. I overpaid already.

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The line comes at insisting others different from yourself are inferior and don’t have the same right to live and be. That is intolerance.

So far in this comment section, your line has been set at about half a dozen different places. I think this is deliberate to make your position difficult to pin down and thereby effectively argue against.

Because you're trying to get people to blithely accept bigotry as a normal part of a healthy society, until such time as bigots achieve their (your) goals.

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You only really need it for those you’d consider bigots or horribly wrong in their values because they don’t match your own.

People who think my friends shouldn't have rights or exist at all are bigots. People who insist that I should be forced to tolerate them are just stalling until they can progress to violence. That's what you're doing.