"The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other"
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The subtext is her own biography: a woman turned into a symbol, watched, judged, and scored in public as if her private life were a referendum on national values. When she condemns intolerance, she’s also talking about the ways institutions and tabloids enforce conformity while pretending it’s tradition. The repetition of “intolerant” reads almost like exasperation, as if she’s pointing to a self-perpetuating loop: we justify harshness as principle, then call the backlash “division,” then repeat.
Context matters because Diana’s public work aligned empathy with visibility: HIV/AIDS patients, landmine victims, people cast as untouchable or inconvenient. In the late 20th century, “tolerance” was often packaged as polite multiculturalism, but she frames intolerance as the core malfunction, not a side effect. The rhetoric is intentionally simple, almost childlike, which is part of its force: it refuses the comforting complexity that lets audiences outsource blame to politicians, extremists, or “those people.” If everyone is implicated, everyone is responsible.
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