It's strange when people call others things like "narrow-minded" or "intolerant"

You can’t have an actual discussion with someone who immediately considers you the enemy because of your views. The problem is that there’s no real “marketplace of ideas”. It’s just everyone trying to one up the other because everyone is trying to “destroy our way of life”. We’re at the point where people who think and live differently than you are barely human.

Just look at SW: so many people just block rather than engage with an idea they don’t agree with (no matter how civilly and rationally it is communicated). A lot of it is fear: we’re afraid that our worldview might be the wrong one.

Are narrow-minded and intolerant bad?
There are so many ideas that I'm not open to. There are so many things which I think are bad which are supposed to fall under tolerance.

I don't like to get fights over it though, so I mostly keep quiet.

God this is so true

Truth. I’ve met so many ‘openminded people’ that either openly or low-key think that everyone who doesn’t believe what they do is less enlightened/ignorant/brainwashed etc

Yeah, they just dehumanize anyone else cause that makes them feel like they don't have to consider what they have to say.

I agree with this. I don’t understand why people at least can’t be open and listen without throwing insults back.

I agree, it's running a mock in the USA and the westerner world. People here claim they are tolerant and open minded but then try to force their ideas on other people's culture. Which is basically ethnocentrism and the opposite of tolerance

All the time. There are all manner of word games used to turn being unable to be open to differing ideas into a virtue.