&gt; So again I ask, what would you propose we do about it?<p>How about for starters, &quot;we&quot; stop getting people fired for holding unpopular political opinions? That said, I don&#x27;t have a good idea of how to persuade everyone to change this disastrous course we&#x27;re on, if that&#x27;s what you were asking.<p>&gt;  At what point does it become unacceptable, and unacceptable to whom?<p>Unacceptable to people who realize that in a large nation full of people with wildly different lifestyles and cultures, a level of tolerance is required so that we can all go about our business as opposed to murdering each other in the street.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that you don&#x27;t speak your mind, advocate for your cause, and criticize those idiots over there who are clearly wrong; it <i>does</i> mean that you acknowledge those idiots still should be able to earn a living and argue for their own causes, no matter how wrong they are.