You just described yourself as tolerant. Tolerance in this context isn't the casual use, rather it means that you don't treat people differently for those immut

You just described yourself as tolerant. Tolerance in this context isn't the casual use, rather it means that you don't treat people differently for those immutable characteristics, however you get there. I don't think I agree with tolerance being performative. I currently live in the Midwest and deal with many people who do foul things because of their intolerance. People here disown gay sons and daughters, then try to commiserate with me about how hard their life is when they fucked someone's life who wasn't hurting anyone. These people are clearly intolerant in the way these "performative" liberals want to end societally. Signaling to others, via things like pride flags, indicates that in some context, they will be "tolerated". For being black or gay, at PayPal offices you won't be attacked, fired, denied financial services, but at Farm Credit you very will might be. Simply waving flags is imperfect, but some signal is better than none, I had to work at farm credit to see the racism first hand (and quit because of it). While my peers at PayPal have mechanisms to defend themselves and their peers from issues around this even thought it is imperfect.