Define “accepted”
Beware of dopey meaningless slogans.
What does that mean, “We believe that everyone deserves to be accepted without exception”? Accepted in what sense? As a lover, roommate, spouse, colleague, friend? Because if that’s what she means, of course Labour doesn’t believe that.
Maybe she thinks she means something like “not shunned or persecuted” – but then she needs to say that, and not what she did say.
What she probably means to imply, without spelling it out, is that Labour believes all men who claim to be trans women should be believed, no questions asked.
If that is what she means, she has rocks in her head. If that is what Labour means it’s a worse than useless, woman-hating political party.
Well, I suppose if you have to “respect” everyone you have to “accept” them as well but I can’t help thinking that automatic respect is what gods and mafia bosses demand.
And college freshmen. And their idea of respect is getting what they want.
What was so wrong with “tolerance”? It’s not fluffy or nice, but as a way of dealing with multiculturalism it’s hard to beat.
There’s many times one reads these nonsense vague statements, and you plug the concept into a handful of potential examples and find it’s a lie immediately. “Acceptance without exception” comes apart the second a woman asks for it.
@iknklast
And the newly graduated who these days seem to be running everything. Or maybe just everything’s social media accounts. Either way it explains a lot. I’m your age. When I was young I was told that I should keep my head down work hard and in my 40s or 50s I might just get a say in how things worked. Then when I hit middle age suddenly I was being told that No, I had to step aside for young people because if someone hasn’t made it by 25 they’ll feel like a failure in life. I don’t recall any threats of suicide but it certainly felt like an earlier iteration of the trans strategy.
Francis Boyle, I felt that when Paula Vogel said that older playwrights should just step aside and turn it over to the younger playwrights. Now, I’m a big fan of mentoring younger people, and making room on the stage for them. But if ALL the experienced people step aside, who can help them improve their craft? Silly me. Older people don’t know anything.
Paula Vogel is 71. Her plays are still being produced (as a matter of fact, I turned down a chance to go to one of them last week; I’ve not had a lot of great experiences with Vogel, and I’d seen that one before. I disliked it).
These days, the idea of older people mentoring and teaching younger people seems to be all but dead. I notice that it’s rare these days for my college to hire anyone much older than 30. If they keep going, the teachers will be younger than the students.
BKSA@3: especially when “tolerance” stretched to encompass toleration of calls for the death of Salman Rushdie. Is it really 35 years…?