What is Going on in Britain?

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Sarah Leigh ..."
<plungy116 at a...> wrote:
>
> OK, Brit-OT-chatterers, reassure me that this article about the banning 
> of A.A. Milne's Piglet from the British workplace is just misplaced 
> rumormongering.
> 
> Me now:-
> If it is true, then I'm ashamed to say its another demonstration of how 
> we just go too far.  How could Piglet offend anyone?
> Yes, we live in a multi-cultural society and we should be tolerant of 
> everyone's beliefs, but this is just stupid.  It's like banning Harry 
> Potter because it encourages satanism and an interest in the occult - 
> preposterous!
> 
> Sarah xx


Ugh! When did "being tolerant of others' beliefs" become
"accommodating everyone and their Aunt Sadie"?  "Tolerant" can swing
both ways, which means that Muslims can deal with Piglet, Jews can
appreciate the pretty Christmas lights, Catholics can see the beauty
in the rituals surrounding Hannukah. We have to start thinking of
"tolerence" as an enriching layering and co-existence of each other's
beliefs, rather than a stripping away of everything that may disrupt
our myopic tunnel vision.



...I said, "Good day, sir!"


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