That’s the equivalent of continuing to purchase Harry Potter products while condemning J. K. Rowling for her transphobic beliefs. Supporting a transphobe in any capacity only serves to prop them up on an even higher pedestal from which they can disseminate their hateful beliefs; better to find alternatives from those in society capable of common decency.
Comment on London Marathon: Choir dropped by charity Scope over founder's gender-critical views
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Sorry, but punishing an entire choir because of the wrongthink of one person is stupid. Not only that, but all the reporting of this is just going to give her a massive amount of publicity, I’d certainly never heard of this lady before.
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
That’s nice.
Anyways good for scope, they have a principle, that bigots should be shunned, and they’re sticking with it.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
It’s a CIC, so they can’t just kick out the founder. Founding a new organisation takes a lot of work.
Even if they could kick her out, it’s legally a protected belief, so it would potentially be discrimination to kick her out for it.
Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
So? “Just taking one idea: founding a new organisation takes a lot of work”.
That’s not an impossible idea is it. “We wanted to not have a bigot as a lead but it was work” isn’t going to win any sympathies, nor should it.
There you go, you have at least 1 workable solution the choir could do to not be mildly inconvenienced the next time.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The work required to leave and start a new one is less work than having her removed. It is easier to work without the cancer than trying to treat it as something helpful or functional. She is responsible for devastating the people around her and harming their lives. She needs to fix herself or find herself alone with her legally held views.