Anyway, this made me laugh:

“I don’t mean to be intolerant myself in the sense that I’m intolerant of people who don’t tolerate what I do (like, I don’t want to be biased against racists, although it’s really hard and I can’t tell if I’m being hypocritical or not).”

This is why I’m not fond of the word “tolerance” in this context. I don’t think we should simply tolerate (i.e. put up with) different types of people; rather, we should accept them at the very least. And I also think we should neither tolerate nor accept ignorant and hateful speech and behaviour. I prefer thinking of things in terms of the older-fashioned “prejudice,” i.e. we should not pre-judge people.

In other words, there’s no reason we should, in advance, dislike Asians, or lesbians, or cat owners, or your associate as a (presumably) straight white guy. But when he starts spouting stuff like that, we *should* judge him, as ignorant.

Martin Luther King Jr. wanted people to be judged not by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character. If their characters are shitty, we might want to figure out why, and maybe change them, or the circumstances that brought them to being that way — but we we should still feel free to judge them as such. “Post-judice” is entirely acceptable.

as a half-queer, I totally approve of roving gangs of lesbians, and would gladly put myself in their way to save my less-queer friends from being ravaged. I’m just that giving.