I’m sorry you’re being downvoted for asking questions. You’re not necessarily wrong, hypothetically, about the cause and effect of the situation. What I think you’re actually discovering is why it is so important to try to react to (what we may deem) “silly” ideas with the exact same line of question that we answer “real” ideas with. I personally think the whole situation has less to do with “tolerance” and more to do with welcoming new ideas while also making sure we still put them through the same line of scientific questioning that we would anything else.