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Feb 2020
1:21pm, 27 Feb 2020
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DeeGee
You know how it is with these right wing "Political correctness gone mad" and "too much red-tape" types, jda?

Equality laws don't include political views. They include philosophical views. In some cases it has required a trip to the ECHR to decree on whether views are political or philosophical. I'd love to see that happen, from either side, on whether there has been discrimination due to a person's views on Brexit.

Unless its a religion, or course, you know the sort of thing, blindly and unquestionably following what's written in a book by some influential men who basically want you to do things in order to allow them to remain influential, but not have to justify why.
Feb 2020
1:42pm, 27 Feb 2020
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HappyG(rrr)
Jda, political affiliation is also a personal category by which you are not allowed to discriminate in the workplace. I don't know if it's try in wider society but it's a protected characteristic at work. If I remember my equality training correctly. :-) G
Feb 2020
2:20pm, 27 Feb 2020
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Ally-C
I can’t think of anyone I know well who voted leave.
Feb 2020
2:42pm, 27 Feb 2020
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Ally-C
I can’t think of anyone I know well who voted leave.
Feb 2020
2:45pm, 27 Feb 2020
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Ally-C
I’ll correct that double post, my father did, but tbf, he was always a fecking arsehole & he’s dead now anyway.
Feb 2020
2:52pm, 27 Feb 2020
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Little Nemo
I know someone who changed from Remain to Leave. Bonkers really because they're planning on spending several months a year living in Europe and want to take their pets back and forth!
Feb 2020
5:42pm, 27 Feb 2020
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rf_fozzy
Apparently the Coronavirus pandemic is seen by the conservative right in the US as being a conspiracy made up by the "Deep State" as part of the plot to remove Trump from office/prevent him from being re-elected.

politico.com

(What was that about tribal lunacy by the zealots on the left that was posted earlier?)
jda
Feb 2020
5:57pm, 27 Feb 2020
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jda
Surely no-one could try to argue that brexit was a philosophical belief that is worthy of respect in a democratic society? I mean, ok, it was a good joke for a few years, but the pastafarians and flat-earthers have a greater level of cogency, seriousness, cohesion and importance, let alone Jedi.
Feb 2020
6:05pm, 27 Feb 2020
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Too Much Water
What Happygrrr said

In the same way you wouldn’t assume someone who is LGBT or BAME should lead on a diversity project because they’re BAME / LGBT

Response to my post an interesting counterpoint to the Yorkshire Tea outcry
jda
Feb 2020
6:13pm, 27 Feb 2020
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jda
But that's an entirely different case - one thing is ascribing a belief/interest to someone based on their characteristics, the previous was ascribing a belief/interest to someone based on their stated belief.

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