On the Subject of Tolerance.

Why does it seem that we live in a world full of people that just can't handle the fact that they are jag-offs? It seems like every time I turn on the TV, my computer, or even my radio, I am barraged with ads or PSAs about how I should not look down on people for various reasons, IE., their race, religion, political views...ETC. Now looking down at someone is easy to do, in fact, most of the heavy pro-tolerance people look down their noses at anyone that they feel doesn't tolerate people to their own personal standards of toleration. The heavy advocates of tolerance are actually less tolerant than your average bigot on the street. I will relate a story for you. About a half year ago I was at a store, standing in line, waiting to purchase various edibles and drinkables fro the self-checkout line, when a woman barged in front of me and the two people who were in line before me. She did not acknowledge us, she just walked in front of us like she was always there. I will not tell you specifics, just this, she was not thin and she was not, by definition, white. One of the people in front of me turned and gave me a look that said,"can you believe this?", the other person in front of her just looked around and tried to ignore it all and hide his obvious anger. This happened in Minnesota, a state that should change it's motto to " Th land of 10,000 repressed emotions", I am not the hold it in kinda guy and I wanted to leave the store with my food and drink and consume them. "Hey lady, get to the back of the line", I said, trying not to say not cutsies like I was standing in a third graders cafeteria line. The gasps and inhalations of shock were actually audible as many heads turned toward me in awe of what I had said. The woman at the head of the line gave me a scornful glance and was about to leave the line, when a woman spoke out, against me. "You racist bigot"' were her words, I didn't feel the need to point out the redundancy of this statement at the time, people like to use those words together because social taboos have turned them into social power words that can be used to scare off the timid. The woman who was calling me racist was a white woman, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, with the build of a heroin addict and the hair of a granola munching, bean freak. "You can not talk to people of color so rudely", she told me, explaining how fragile these people were because of how poorly they were treated by the whites. Well, she looked smug and proud and she thought she had me against a wall. She crossed her arms and awaited an apology and then she could await the kudos of the onlookers, I tell you she looked damn pleased with herself. This is what I said in response. " Holy shit lady, what the hell are you talking about? I was telling her to get to the back of the line because she just cut in front of everyone else. You are the one who brought up race." at this point there is shock in her hippy eyes." I'm not racist lady, I have been around long enough to know that being an asshole is not bound simply by the color of your skin and you really helped nail that down just now. You are the one who brought skin color into this if anything I would have gone after the fact that she is a big fatty and was in an obvious rush to get home and swill down a bag of Totinos pizza rolls before her cholesterol level dropped below five thousand. Your the racist here lady, not me. When I see someone acting like an asshole, I just say to myself, Look at this asshole but it's obvious to me that when you see someone being an asshole you say Look at that poor non-white person.". That is, more or less what I said, then I was asked to leave the store, crazy hippy was not asked to leave but I was. I didn't even get to buy my food and drinks just escorted out of the building. I was sitting on a bench trying to wind down and really craving a beer, when the line cutter pulled up along side of the bench, rolled down her window called me a crazy white boy and drove away with a wave and a smile. Well I guess that's tolerance for you. Don't even get me started on religion.