Gonna need some ice for that

Honestly how I feel about it, though: 

I remember when I started teaching, I used to pretend to my (extremely intolerant) students that I did indeed believe their religious beliefs were real. Yes, there was a God. Yes, Jesus did indeed care whether we wear earrings or drank wine. 

Now I tolerate them, but when they raise their hands and insist, for instance, that there really truly was a flood that killed everything on earth except Noah, I just say, "Well, the evidence doesn't support that," and move on.

But that's the thing -- that tolerance is not returned. We're supposed to accept their deeply-held convictions as though they were reality. We're supposed to build laws and design public school curriculums and organize our culture in ways that validate their belief system. 

But that tolerance doesn't go two ways. If a student wants to wear a hijab, or avoid pork in their school lunches, this is an affront they cannot tolerate. If we discuss (as I discuss) flood myths as they appear in Gilgamesh and in Native American narratives, I'll have students complain to the dean or write nasty notes in my student evaluations, about how I'm "anti-Christian." And if our biology curriculum includes evolution, or an English class assigns a book in which trans people exist, why, this is pornography, and the entire educational system must be redesigned to keep such evil from ever happening again.

Also book-burning.

This is the paradox of tolerance. We must tolerate what they believe. They, because what they believe is absolutely correct -- they know it is, because their God says so -- they not only need not tolerate what they believe, but are allowed to do whatever they can to destroy us, our families, our schools, our culture, our lives.

It seems increasingly unlikely that we can continue to co-exist with cultures like these.

ETA: The original Twitter thread, in which Triller makes it clear that she expects everyone to respect and enforce her home culture / belief system, while she is free to denigrate, mock, and trample on the culture and beliefs of others. There is some pushback, but there are also many, many, many people cheering her on.

ETA II: Lest you think I am solely ascribing this attitude toward Christians, let me add that it is the insistence that everyone else tiptoe around their own particular belief system, while feeling utterly free to dismiss other people's beliefs and cultures, which annoys me. I recently had a student who believed in the healing power of crystals, and was furious when I would not accept her websites as credible sources. How very dare I insist she use academic criteria to choose her sources!