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This user is a citizen of the world. This user comes from South Africa. This user lives in Johannesburg. This user is a Witsie. This user is an undergraduate student majoring in Philosophy and Political Studies. PHLThis user's favourite subject is philosophy. This user is an aspiring academic. NameThis user's name is Erica. 32YThis Wikipedian was born on 28 June 1992 and is 32 years, 4 months, and 9 days old. This user identifies as queer. sheThis user prefers to be referred to using feminine gender pronouns. V This user is vegan. This user is left-handed. ⇆This user proudly confuses right and left. This user is a reformed smoker. This user wears corrective eyeglasses or contact lenses, without which they'd be as blind as a bat! Red is one of this user's favourite colours. Pink is one of this user's favourite colours. Green is one of this user's favourite colours. :)This user is an optimist.

Interests & Tastes

This user loves knowledge. This user is interested in philosophy. This user is interested in politics. This user is interested in sociology. This user is interested in psychology. This user is interested in Biology. This user is interested in human geography. This user is interested in geology. This user is interested in linguistics. This user is interested in history. This user is interested in Human Prehistory This user is interested in classical mythology. This user is interested in astronomy. This user is interested in architecture. This user is an art lover. This user is interested in literature. This user is a pyromaniac. This user enjoys surfing. This user enjoys gardening. This user enjoys cooking. This user enjoys photography. This user enjoys filmmaking. This user loves the theatre — classical, fringe, experimental. This user reads the Mail & Guardian. This user is a Bibliophile. This user is currently reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. This user loves to write. This user is learning to play the guitar. This user enjoys experimental or avant-garde music. This user enjoys folk music. This user enjoys classical music. This user enjoys reggae. This user enjoys indie rock. This user appreciates progressive rock. This user enjoys psychedelic rock. This user loves vinyl records. This user believes that caffeine is necessary in large doses daily. This user loves espresso. This user loves a good cup of tea. This user enjoys smoking cannabis.

Basic Views

This user is an atheist. This user is a freethinker. This user is a secular humanist. This user is a skeptic. This user strives to be unfair against unfounded myth and unbalanced in service of the truth. This user believes in materialism, the belief that everything that exists is made of matter. Until proven wrong, this user does not believe in the supernatural. File:Real Compost.jpgThis user feels that most of "life after death" bears an intriguing resemblance to compost. This user believes in logic. This user is a moral universalist. This user understands biological evolution. This user, based on evidence and current consensus, thinks that the Universe began with a bang.

Political Views

ANCThis user supports the African National Congress. SACPThis user supports the South African Communist Party. COSATUThis user supports the Congress of South African Trade Unions. SASCOThis user supports the South African Students' Congress. This user identifies as a Democratic Socialist. PROThis user is a progressive. This user identifies as a Marxist. This user is anti-capitalist. This user wants to tax the rich to provide health care, education and welfare for everyone.†$ £ ¥ € This user supports the proletariat. This user is a trade unionist This user advocates democracy. This user believes it is every citizen's duty to vote. This user believes race does not exist except as an oppressive social construct and will oppose racism by any means necessary. This user supports affirmative action. This user is a strong supporter of the LGBT community and sees nothing wrong with being queer. This user is a feminist. PCThis user supports a woman's right to choose, and opposes any restrictions on abortions. This user is an environmentalist. This user supports sustainable living. This user wants ZERO net carbon emissions from human activity.† This user supports the taxation of pollution. This user supports renewable energy. This user opposes the use of nuclear technology. This user supports the abolition of the automobile. This user supports public transit. This user supports recycling. This user knows the mainstream media is just a brainwashing tool. Entertainment is a commodity. News is a right.† This user finds censorship offensive. This user sees nothing wrong with the human form and doesn't view it as something that needs to be hidden. This user believes that Nationalism is good for culture but bad for politics. This user supports the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly. This user is an internationalist. This user supports the alter-globalisation movement. This user believes that we all need to fight for indigenous rights. This user opposes the stereotype of hostility between Western civilization and others. This user supports the right of all people to resist occupation, colonialism and imperialism by any means necessary. Apartheid: Wrong for South Africans; wrong for Palestinians. This user recognizes the Palestinian right of return.‡ This user supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid. This user supports a binational solution to the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict.‡One State This user believes there is a Jewish identity. But does not believe that all Jews are automatically Israeli. This user supports the independence of Kashmir. This user supports the will of the Kurdish people for an independent Kurdish state. This user strongly supports the Green Movement of Iran (GMI) جنبش سبز ایران. This user supports the independence of Tamil Eelam. This user supports a Free Tibet This user believes in the peaceful reunification of North and South Korea under one government. This user supports independence for Catalonia. This user supports the reunification of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.‡32 User:S.Örvarr.S/Template:EU This user supports Quebec independence. This user is pro-Cuba This user supports changing the flag of Australia. This user supports changing the flag of Aotearoa. This user opposes conscription. File:FirstCrusade.jpgThis user believes religion should have no role to play in politics. EuThis user supports euthanasia and believes people have the right to die if they so choose.Su This user supports universal health care. This user supports stem cell research. This user supports gun regulation, but not an outright ban on the civilian ownership of guns. This user believes the world would be a better place if everyone had access to a quality free education. This user supports the full legalisation of cannabis and other soft drugs. This user supports the ban on smoking in public places. This user generally opposes the death penalty, but would support its use on those convicted of crimes against humanity. This user opposes torture under all circumstances. This user knows that space is the future.

Language

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. This user uses Commonwealth spelling. tyop typo This user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team. This user thinks good grammar is sexy. human- kindRegarding gender, neutrality is vernacular. Patriarchy is archaic. theyThis user considers singular they standard English usage. Oh shit!This user thinks profanity does not exist. They believe that such words are the same as any other words and should be treated as such. byThe passive voice may be used by this user. to¦goThis user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives. …in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. -ly This user mourns the apparent death of the adverb, a loss that this user feels most serious. . TheThis user does not put two spaces after a full stop. A, B, and A and BThis user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing. “…”This user favors curly quotation marks over straight style. "…"?This user thinks "British punctuation is best for quotation marks". Do you? This user prefers the metric system.

Software

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user contributes using Windows 7 Home Premium. MS OfficeThis person uses Microsoft Office. This user uses the freeware AVG virus scanner.

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