Intolerance is so complicated a thing for some, hug a kitten, feed a hungry puppy, and presto change-o, intolerance vanishes. This moral apologetic serves as a kind of salve for wrongdoing so long as the wrongdoing fits your community worldview.
"We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal." Karl Popper