[oldmanjay]

> Tolerance isn’t about loving everyone. It’s precisely the opposite. It’s accepting that are others out there who disgust or repel us, whom we don’t approve of or don’t agree with, but we accept their right to be that way, as long as they stay within the law.

Tibor Fischer, The Hungarian Tiger

[sdegutis]

Well, that's one definition of tolerance, I suppose.

[oldmanjay]

I'm well aware of the definition of tolerance that boils down to "people who share my opinions are tolerated" but I don't get what the point of it is.

[sdegutis]

The one I personally prefer is "don't demand people change what they're doing just because you don't agree with them."

This seems like the most sane, intuitive, and universally reasonable definition of tolerance.

Using this definition in the case of this Opal controversy:

- the developer wasn't being intolerant because he didn't demand anything of trans people, he only expressed an opinion;

- but the person who opened the issue was being intolerant by demanding the developer step down.