Are liberals as intolerent as conservatives?

Here's another one of those false equivalency articles. Open-minded people are indeed "colder" to close-minded people and for good reason. We really need to bring in human development into this picture, something missing from this article. Those more developed are colder to those lower on the scale because the latter cause irreparable harm to society, like Dump's juvenile behavior or greedy corporatists causing income inequality and environmental disaster. Meanwhile, those lower on the scale want to eradicate the "elite" from the face of the earth for daring to curtail their juvenile "me and my tribe's" right to do whatever we want.

And then there's this true statement:

"There’s an argument to be made that conservative intolerance does more harm than liberal intolerance, as it targets more vulnerable people." That the conservatives then feel victimized by progressives defending the vulnerable against them is purely snowflake whining from those so privileged, an entirely false equivalence.

The article does make this distinction when it comes to the climate crisis in that there is a huge difference between wanting to punish the denialists who are contributing to the destruction of the planet than wanting to punish the environmentalists for merely challenging their false beliefs.

Then the article states this: "Regardless of who has the more toxic intolerance, the fact remains that people have trouble getting along." Duh, yeah. Level of toxicity and level of care and concern is a determining factor in "getting along." Do we want to "get along" with those who "target more vulnerable people?" Or do we want to defeat them in elections to mitigate that harm? Will just being nice to them change one bit their penchant to do harm given their worldview?