What is tolerance if not acting tolerant upon friction generating world views? Is not the final act of giving an act of tolerance? Why not if not?not because it was tolerant,
The racist tree is racist. It hates black kids. In the context eightbitsamurai used, he was just clarifying that the tree didn't accept the black child because it figured black kids aren't so bad, but because the white kids protested. In some contexts, it would be tollerant for the tree to hold onto it's views, but Samer described that the tree dislikes black children enough to not give them apples. Maybe soon the tree realised that black kids are no different from the rest but at the time the tree was tollerating something it didn't like for the white children to come back.
So the racist tree is committing thoughtcrime by thinking things which we don't approve of or disagree with, even if he or she decides never to act upon them? I'll agree that people who fall outside of society for some reason often pretend to toe the line to prevent negative consequences. And that for idealists, as I can be, in situations invving racism, it's easy to feel that that's not enough. But you can't fucking thought control people. The realization that it's important to at least act accepting shows more maturity, insight, and care about society than a lot of bigots possess.
I think I must have mis-interpreted backtoyoujim's post. I thought s/he meant that the tree wasn't tollerant because it changed it's view(which seems like a pretty bad interpretation now) so I explained what I thought Samer meant by I agree with what you're saying though, every step in the right direction is good.not because it was tolerant,