dead_soft
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Do you genuinely think it's 'nutcases' who have decided to take down a picture of a Queen? And you genuinely view them as extremists?
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Do you genuinely think it's 'nutcases' who have decided to take down a picture of a Queen? And you genuinely view them as extremists?
They get to have a view, but they equally get to be told what morons they are being. It's just a 'kin knee ffs, they're the ones making the big deal of it.
Yes, I think the reasoning behind it - remove a picture of the Queen to create a 'safe space', like a picture of her is so oppressive that she's akin to a picture of a KKK Grand Wizard - is actually insane and done for very obvious extreme political reasons.
If they'd have just said "you know what, should we freshen up the place and put a new picture up", like any sane person would, nobody would care. It's not the act of taking the picture down that is the issue, it's the reasoning behind it.
Great, and they in turn get to call the footballers morons for doing it too.
dead_soft
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That's not what happened though, they just said it made it more welcoming. More akin to me asking my workplace to take down a picture of John Aldridge as I think he's a bell that represents things I don't like.
And, I'm fairly sure you would still care, you're exactly the person they whip up this sort of controversy to try and bait, and it clearly works. Imagine thinking a student is an extremist for acknowledging the monarchy has a colonialist past. Absolutely crackers.
Which would be insane, and I'd sincerely hope your boss would tell you to do one if you did.
dead_soft
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Ha ha, what? Even if everyone in the workplace didn't want it we've got to stick with it?
Yes? Given it's John Aldridge, not Adolf bloody Hitler. Good luck at your employment tribunal on that one!
I can't believe you've just seriously gave that example, like it's obviously completely reasonable!
Unbelievable...
dead_soft
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You're saying that if everyone in a workplace wants a picture of John Aldridge taken down because we're Everton fans, and we all agree, we've got to keep it up because it was already there from before? Or we're being insane?
Insane. Absolutely. If the boss wants it in his/her building that he/she owns, that's their call. It'd be like moaning about the colour of the wallpaper. You can express an opinion, but if they want to keep, they keep.
It's John Aldridge. A footballer. John Aldridge. A picture of him in a building isn't infringing on your human rights ffs
He’s a cretin.
dead_soft
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Who ever said anything about infringing human rights? Why are you taking it to such extremes? No one else has.
Whoever said the boss was wanting to keep it? There wasn't a boss who wanted to keep the picture of the Queen up in the common room was there? Just those of us in the office decided we didn't want a picture of John Aldridge up because we were Everton fans so we all agreed it should come down.
They can yes, but grown men crying about football players kneeling will always look like the complete bellends in the situation. Soz pal
Your workplace has no hierarchy then?
If not, fine. If someone is ultimately responsible and they wanted to keep it, no, you're insane to think it "should" come down.
EH U 'KIN BITTERS!! HAVE SOME RESPECTO!!!
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