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| Speaking to a non-white friend of mine recently about Trevor Phillips and his recent CRE speech, my friend said that they "didn't want to be tolerated in the UK, they wanted to be accepted." Now, we can all understand what that means, but we were both at a loss, on the spur of the moment, to work out how that would work in practical terms. Toleration in this sense tends to mean a reluctant gritted-teeth acceptence of someone elses right to exist while acceptence it's less of an issue, but when most organisations have it within their codes or practice not discriminate on the grounds of race or ethnic background, what differences are there between the 'accepting' society as opposed to the 'tolerating' society. |
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