… then our children have it really bad. Two days into my stay on the island and one recurrent theme is the level of intolerance that is building up. First there was the shocking news item on the Times about the man who had his house broken into and “No to Gays” sprayed all over his walls. Then I was told about a particular estate agent’s brilliant marketing technique about the Balzan area. Apparently he told potential customers that houses there are losing their value because of the “blacks” in the area. Spiffin’.
What these idiots do not realise is that there is no line that can be drawn as to what this particular brand of relativism can tolerate. Some people don’t like spiders, others cannot stand fast cars – whose measure shall we use? I cannot stand intolerant oafs… does that make me one of them? Would my criterion get me killed in an hypothetical fascist-style cull of all things intolerant in the country?
