> Any system that is not explicitly pro-Weird Nerd will turn anti-Weird Nerd pretty quickly
just feels like a misunderstanding of the paradox of tolerance[0] ("in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance").
So we need to question what the author means with "Weird Nerd", because if a weird nerd just isn't expressing intolerance, I can't fathom how anyone could have an issue with it ...and become "anti-Weird Nerd".
Even the proposed rule
> Any system that is not explicitly pro-Weird Nerd will turn anti-Weird Nerd pretty quickly
just feels like a misunderstanding of the paradox of tolerance[0] ("in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance").
So we need to question what the author means with "Weird Nerd", because if a weird nerd just isn't expressing intolerance, I can't fathom how anyone could have an issue with it ...and become "anti-Weird Nerd".
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance