Tolerance means you aren't jailing people with different views than your own. Tolerance means you aren't out beating people up for having different views. Tolerance isn't about putting on a happy face and doing business with someone whose views you find odious.

If people are no longer free to use words or social stigma to advance their views and opinion, because "tolerance," then what do we have left?

The 'brick through the window' analogy is one of the most apt I've heard so far given the increasingly violent tendency of 'protesters' in this country.

Nah, tolerance means that you gotta be ok with people from different religions, ethnic groups, w/e. The opinion thing isn't as important.

In other words, shut up and get along.

You're right, we should tolerate someone who wants to literally register all Muslims in a database.

You lean liberal? What?

There is tolerance and then there are things that are not open to discussion. The line tends to shift as society progresses.

Not so long ago it was a perfectly valid opinion that there should be slaves. Try that today.

(Incidentally that same level of society would have seen Thiel stoned to death, he is openly gay after all)

Serious question: is there any action he could take, any line he could cross, literally anything he could do or say that would ever, in your mind, be sufficient to justify refusing to associate with him?

> people you do business with have political opinions you don't agree with

Yes, they do. However, opinions and material support are different things.

> are you personally just going to stop doing business with 49% of the country that voted differently?

Expressing your opinion with a vote and funding a campaign with >$1M are not anywhere close to equivalent.

> half the country felt ostracized and decided to lob a brick through the window of washington

That's exactly what happened, as expected[1]. Unfortunately, most people were more interested in playing political games or blaming their favorite scapegoat.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzl4B3mrKQE