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48. "We are tolerant people."

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I ask you, in all seriousness, which things should we be tolerant of?

First let's establish the dictionary definition: allow the existence, occurrence , or practice of (something that one does not necessarily like or agree with) without interference.

Should I tolerate the genocide on the Gaza strip? We are tolerant, right? I cannot love or be neutral about all those folks dying.

Should I tolerate the reason many died because of the mishandling of Covid? All those folks dying for no reason?

Should I tolerate the orange one or any man grabbing my pussy? I am a rape survivor, after all. Maybe I should tolerate it and not stop it.

Should I tolerate our constitution being destroyed? Not try to stop it, since that is what tolerate means?

What about tolerating/not stopping someone who says liberals need to die? I voted against that particular office runner last election. I would give you his name but I have a brain injury. He was a preacher in NC and he even ran on doing away with abortion, after his wife had one. Maybe I should have tolerated him and not voted against him. After all, why would I want to hate having open season on me? I should love.

The list is too long to go through all the things they have said or done. Picking out any one of these things is horrifying to me. Being tolerant of everything makes me want go puke. That is not what Democrats are. We stand up for what is right and fight for what isn't. I never want to be a person of such low moral character that when I see a person being kidnapped off the streets, that I would not hate it is speak up about it. To me, that is the opposite of what we are about.

I do not often hate people. I have been raped. My mother embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from me and my extended family. When I joined their suit against her, she disowned me for life. My dad tried to choke me to get me out of the way, so he could go after my husband, in what he perceived as a slight. I was naked, except for a blanket wrapped around me. I was pregnant and had to go to the Dr the next day, to see if my son was still alive. When my dad left the house, he said he would come back.with a gun. I shut my blinds for years, knowing he was violent. I did not hate any of them. But I did not have to fight them.

The rump regime has done really bad things to a lot of folks. When you ask me to love them, it is the same to me as asking to love Hitler. Would you show me the death camps and ask me to love Hitler? It is also impossible for me to love or tolerate someone and fight them. We have to fight this menace every step of the way. I have never loved someone and found enough burn in my heart to fight them.

You say hating someone is easy? Maybe for the other side. Maybe for a lot of folks. Maybe for you. For me, not liking someone, or hating them, is not easy. You use as an example a child saying they hate their parents. That is usually something said out of rebellion or in the moment. It isn't real hate. It takes a lot to hate. As an adult, it takes a lot to push me to the point of hate. I imagine everyone here did not just hate him the first time they heard his name. For a well rounded adult, it can take a lot for someone to truly convince you to hate them. What does it say about a person that so many have him? That he is misunderstood, or people have a plethora of reasons to hate him? Maybe the majority is right. Maybe there is a reason they feel this way. A good reason.

Trump is trying to burn America down. He is surrounded by arsonists who support him. Which one of these arsonists, trying to destroy our country, would you have me tolerate/not try to stop? Which of these arsonists are you asking me to love?