ID: A scene from Legally Blonde of a conversation between Warner and Elle in the corridor at Harvard, in 4 panels:
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Warner asks “What happened to the tolerant left?”
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Elle replies, smiling “Who said we were tolerant?”
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Warner continues “I thought you were supposed to be tolerant of all beliefs!”
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Elle looks confused “Why would we tolerate bigotry, inequity, or oppression?”
Generally I like to frame it as first order vs second order intolerance. First order intolerance is where a person is intolerant of someone else because of some inherent characteristic like race/ethnicity/nationality, gender, or sexual orientation. Second order intolerance is a reaction to first order intolerance. First order intolerance is unjustified, but second order intolerance is just a restoration to maximized tolerance.