Age of Tolerance or Cancellation?
This age of requiring tolerance for everyone's beliefs is confusing to me. If I'm supposed to tolerate someone else's beliefs, aren't you also supposed to tolerate mine? You know, that part where we say “agree to disagree” and go on our merry way?
But clearly that is not what is happening online nowadays. I say that because as soon as somebody shares their beliefs, if those beliefs happen to be in conflict with what the internet mob believes, then it won't be long before that somebody gets cancelled.
It doesn't really matter whether you are on the left, or right or even in the middle. You say something the folks on the internet don't agree with, you're done. It's an ugly phase to be in, this modern society of ours. Like we cannot even have a difference of opinion.
Everyone is expected to exhibit tolerance for everyone else's beliefs, but hold on, that only applies if those beliefs are acceptable to a group of people who wield the power online.
Where is the freedom of speech in that?