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TalkToTheHand123 · 06/06/2026 14:00

Rainbows everywhere. Hi. I walked into the office building yesterday and rainbow stuff everywhere. Nearby nursery has all rainbow colours on fencing and there was an ambulance with rainbow colours. A bit ridiculous?

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TalkToTheHand123 · 11/06/2026 10:47

Why make up stuff I've never said? All I am saying is there is too much of the promotion and causing danger to people.

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MickyMoonshine · 11/06/2026 08:56

MyGhastIsFlabbered · 11/06/2026 07:56

All we need is ‘snowflake’ and we’ve got a bigot bingo full house I think

Indeed. I think the OP is on the wind up as they’re literally just repeating well known, worn out phrases with zero substance behind them.

MickyMoonshine · 11/06/2026 08:54

TalkToTheHand123 · 11/06/2026 07:49

Which is a total waste of money just to pander to the woke brigade so they can all pat themselves on the back even if it costs lives.

More meaningless nonsense 🙄

Muffsies · 11/06/2026 08:13

TalkToTheHand123 · 11/06/2026 07:49

Which is a total waste of money just to pander to the woke brigade so they can all pat themselves on the back even if it costs lives.

You're right! Let's follow the US and remove all women and BME people from senior positions of power and the armed forces, then flood the streets with armed immigration officers (right wing militants with nazi tats), that'll totally make everyone safer and put things to rights. We can all see how well that's going and how people are so much happier for it. If you want to see decisions that cost lives, look no further.

I'm being facetious obvs, but if nige and his lot get in that's exactly what will happen. We're seeing it play out over in America bc people deceided the left-wing and wokeness were the cause of everything bad, that could so easily happen over here if we knee-jerk to voting far-right just bc we're fed up and listen to all the lies. Oh, and you can say goodbye to the NHS if his lot get in, fancy paying a bill every time you need to see the doctor? Nige won't care, he's got his pay-offs to see him right.

Gladystheimpaler · 11/06/2026 08:01

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 17:25

Just because it is repetition does not make the point any less valid. It is overboard, but fortunately people are waking up and standing up to it. Hopefully they will tone it down to a much more acceptable level.

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What would an acceptable level look like for you? I think it would be helpful to understand what your idea of the perfect amount of diversity and equality looks like and therefore how what we have today is excessive

MyGhastIsFlabbered · 11/06/2026 07:56

All we need is ‘snowflake’ and we’ve got a bigot bingo full house I think

TalkToTheHand123 · 11/06/2026 07:49

Which is a total waste of money just to pander to the woke brigade so they can all pat themselves on the back even if it costs lives.

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pointythings · 10/06/2026 21:48

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 16:27

You seriously trying to suggest it is implausible with all the wokery going on? You have whole roles and departments for diversity.

This just shows you don't know what diversity means and what it does. I work in a mental health Trust. And yes, we have people who have a diversity role. However, this is always alongside a clinical role. Understanding people's background and culture allows clinicians to deliver care that is appropriate and effective for that particular person. Honestly, this shouldn't be rocket science.

More and more your posts are becoming a parade of right right wing cliches.

herewegoagainonwednesday · 10/06/2026 20:13

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 15:49

I've been in meeting where I've been asked indirectly to recommend people from groups of people like these to help promote the business's diversity image.

That just makes sure people who are not white middle aged straight men are considered. Which includes - you!

MyGhastIsFlabbered · 10/06/2026 19:20

Do you not feel that the LGB+ community have heterosexuality ‘forced down their throats’ all the time?

MickyMoonshine · 10/06/2026 17:45

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 17:25

Just because it is repetition does not make the point any less valid. It is overboard, but fortunately people are waking up and standing up to it. Hopefully they will tone it down to a much more acceptable level.

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Again, what you’re writing is meaningless. It’s just words with no actual evidence.

What has gone ‘overboard’. What needs ‘toning down’? What is at an unacceptable level?

There is no substance behind what you are saying.

I’ve asked you and others what ‘ramming it down your throat/neck’ actually means in practice? Funnily enough nobody ever responds because they’re just repeating what they’ve heard other people say and decided to jump on the bandwagon without thinking about what they’re saying.

Every single one of your posts is a sweeping statement with zero evidence to support any one of your points.

TLDR - you’re talking bollocks.

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 17:25

MickyMoonshine · 10/06/2026 17:17

What has ‘gone too far’?

You’re just trotting out tired old tropes now - it’s embarrassing.

Just because it is repetition does not make the point any less valid. It is overboard, but fortunately people are waking up and standing up to it. Hopefully they will tone it down to a much more acceptable level.

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MickyMoonshine · 10/06/2026 17:17

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 17:16

I'm all for helping, but it has gone too far.

What has ‘gone too far’?

You’re just trotting out tired old tropes now - it’s embarrassing.

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 17:16

I'm all for helping, but it has gone too far.

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randomchap · 10/06/2026 16:34

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 16:27

You seriously trying to suggest it is implausible with all the wokery going on? You have whole roles and departments for diversity.

Wokery? So helping marginalised groups is wrong? What a horrible outlook.

MickyMoonshine · 10/06/2026 16:29

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 16:27

You seriously trying to suggest it is implausible with all the wokery going on? You have whole roles and departments for diversity.

Still doesn’t mean straight people are being discriminated against!

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 16:27

randomchap · 10/06/2026 16:20

Convincing 🙄

You seriously trying to suggest it is implausible with all the wokery going on? You have whole roles and departments for diversity.

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randomchap · 10/06/2026 16:20

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 15:49

I've been in meeting where I've been asked indirectly to recommend people from groups of people like these to help promote the business's diversity image.

Convincing 🙄

MickyMoonshine · 10/06/2026 16:04

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 15:49

I've been in meeting where I've been asked indirectly to recommend people from groups of people like these to help promote the business's diversity image.

That’s not evidence to support the claims you made.
If your organisation has evidence that particular groups are underrepresented then it is perfectly acceptable to put in place actions to address this.
That means it is fine to specifically target advertising and information at underrepresented groups.
That doesn’t mean straight people are being discriminated against- that would be unlawful. It means that an organisation is addressing underrepresentation.

This is not evidence that heterosexual people are now being discriminated against.

Muffsies · 10/06/2026 16:03

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 15:49

I've been in meeting where I've been asked indirectly to recommend people from groups of people like these to help promote the business's diversity image.

I don't understand how making sure that people of all different backgrounds are inculuded is the same as saying hetro / white people aren't welcome.

Like when a company makes a big deal about how many Board members are female, it shouldn't make a man feel he's been unfaily excluded. That's just egality.

TalkToTheHand123 · 10/06/2026 15:49

MickyMoonshine · 10/06/2026 10:13

Can you support this with any evidence or examples?

I've been in meeting where I've been asked indirectly to recommend people from groups of people like these to help promote the business's diversity image.

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MickyMoonshine · 10/06/2026 10:16

KateSixer · 09/06/2026 15:23

Why celebrate it at all? Nothing wrong with being gay but why stuff it down our throats?

It's just so tiresome. Treating it as "special" ultimately contributes to "othering" homosexuality rather than normalising it.

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Because people like you continue to use phrases like ‘stuff it down our throats’. How is that being done exactly?

MickyMoonshine · 10/06/2026 10:13

TalkToTheHand123 · 09/06/2026 18:18

And now heterosexuality is being discriminated against. People are being excluded from jobs and events due to being heterosexual.

Can you support this with any evidence or examples?

MoFadaCromulent · 09/06/2026 20:39

Typical snowflake conservative anti-free speech offended by everything nonsense from the OP

randomchap · 09/06/2026 20:33

TalkToTheHand123 · 09/06/2026 18:18

And now heterosexuality is being discriminated against. People are being excluded from jobs and events due to being heterosexual.

Pull the other one

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