Friday 15 October 2010

I am not tolerant.

I now realise I'm not a tolerant person and never have been.
Tolerate for me means 'To put up with something'.
If there's nothing objectionable about anther culture, race, extra there's no need to tolerate them.
I don't tolerate people who are cruel to others in the name of their culture because there is something objectionable about it.
Its important to acknowledge this as I believe many of the arguments from the far right are routed in misunderstandings and misuse of terminology.

The left often use 'Tolerate' to mean 'respect' and 'accepting'. The far right exclusively use the word to mean 'to put up with'. A definition I'd argue we should all stick to. There's no need for this confusing duel meaning, we can talk about the benefits of an accepting society. But we can all lack tolerance as, of course, we shouldn't be putting up with things when we could make things better.

Sunday 3 October 2010

So I start Another Endeavor

Is it only after boring days I look for a new hobbie? Well 'today' won't be the subject of this blogs first post.

I've been stoping over with my boyfriend in his student halls of residence for most of the last few months, and we have an issue.... Somebody is stealing our yogurts from the fridge :O

Could this be linked to the bath plug? There's a bath and its plugs gone missing...... But somebody is still managing to have baths. The plot thickens! I suspect the Chinese couple who have just moved in but i can't be sure. Humm to think of a cunning trap.