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Stop Funding Hate and Mimmymum

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Lumene · 08/11/2019 21:22

Stop Funding Hate are going after the Spectator on a few things, including the trans stuff. They seem to have teamed up with Mimmymum:

twitter.com/StopFundingHate/status/1192859057578741760?s=20

She and SFH are trying to lump the Spectator’s GC stuff in with genuinely horrible and stupid Muslim bashing from Rod Liddle’s deeply awful article last week.

By the looks of StopFunding’s timeline, some of the advertisers are wavering: Waterstones and Naked Wines seem to be suggesting they’ll pull money from the Spectator.

If anyone on Twitter wants to explain to the advertisers they are targeting that GC journalism is important, reasonable and has nothing at all in common with Islamophobia (or indeed Rod Liddle) I think it would be worth making the point.

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nauticant · 28/01/2020 18:57

Before reading this the main thing I knew about Stop Funding Hate was that they were supported by Brendan Cox. So I assumed it would be yet another beardy cult-type thing that would be continually trying to hide its misogyny.

ChickenNuggetsChipsAndBeans · 28/01/2020 12:20

They hold the media to account, but as a private company who holds them to account.

ChickenNuggetsChipsAndBeans · 28/01/2020 12:19

I dont get organisations such as SFH. I didn't know much about them so I did a quick google. They operate only in the virtual world.

Two of the directors pay themselves a salary, from what I can see of about £30,000. They ask for donations but are not a registered charity. I know this is allowed, but in my view it blurs the lines.

Information is available at companies house.

They do have a complaints policy on their website.

DuLANGMondeFOREVER · 28/01/2020 10:15

Mermaids will potentially have a legal case to answer too. I hope so.

They have groomed parents, children AND clinicians into believing that it’s immediate transition or suicide ‘better a live son than a dead daughter’ etc.

ScrimshawTheSecond · 28/01/2020 10:08

Yes, Mayo. Sadly that's the only language some of these people speak.

Mayomaynot · 28/01/2020 09:57

GIDs won't be able to say that they didn't know there was a risk that many of the young people they put on a pathway to transition would come to regret it. They have been warned by their own professionals (now ex) about the speed with they they have rushed children to 'transition'. I hope they and all the other organisations that have done this will get sued. I think this will only stop when it hurts them financially.

ScrimshawTheSecond · 28/01/2020 09:43

It's quite interesting having a look at how that is playing out on SFH's facebook post. By far the most popular comments there are defending Todd. I see mostly sensible, rational views on there, that I would generally call as in favour of women's rights.

Puuuuuulll ....

Aesopfable · 27/01/2020 20:25

Imagine how this headline from today's Mail on Sunday would read - and be received - if you replaced the word "trans" with the name of any other minority group

I think a good example here would be Rochdale and the protection of rapists because of their ‘minority group’

Freespeecher · 27/01/2020 19:32

Bet the Speccie love being anointed the Last Bastion of free speech! This may backfire on the would-be censors, excellent.

DuLANGMondeFOREVER · 27/01/2020 13:11

Wow. Twitter comments are excellent. SFH will have to block half their followers at this rate 😂

Michelleoftheresistance · 27/01/2020 10:45

GIDS loose the doors will be open for detransitioners to take legal action for compensation against all involved.

I sincerely hope they do. The potential for those detransitioners to experience long term health issues up to and including chronic illness that may prevent their working, seems alarmingly high, they may well need that compensation. The idea of a generation of these detransitioners fighting their way through PIP on top of dealing with the loss of their fertility, loss of their sexuality, the mental distress, this is absolutely something that GIDS and the NHS and the government stand responsible for.

nevermorelenore · 27/01/2020 10:38

I like that their Twitter feed is full of people who were just this moment about to renew their home insurance/buy an expensive holiday but then they saw the company were engaging in wrongthink.

Mate, we know you weren't.

GenderfreeLang · 27/01/2020 10:32

Trans dont have a case so are piggy backing on an anti Muslim case - sounds about right! In Ireland they piggy backed gay marriage to get self-ID...

With Kiera Bell now co-claimant on the case against GIDS if GIDS loose the doors will be open for detransitioners to take legal action for compensation against all involved.

Michelleoftheresistance · 27/01/2020 10:27

#startspreadinglove

Oh the irony.

TimeLady · 27/01/2020 10:22

I'm wondering which Speccie writer will be given the opportunity to pen the response Grin

Jeez, harassing the press in such circumstances is surely shooting yourself right in the foot.

Melroses · 27/01/2020 10:06

Thanks for the update - I had forgotten they had gone for the Spectator before.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/01/2020 08:08

They blocked me for putting some smug virtue signalling arsehole straight on his false figures. While leaving all his posts up.

marvellousnightforamooncup · 27/01/2020 08:06

I stopped following SFH on FB because they started going too far down the blindly woke route. Preachy bastards.

RufustheLanglovingreindeer · 27/01/2020 07:43

Waterstones?

Oh i hope they don’t do anything silly....ive still got my birthday voucher to spend

And a book store of all places!!!

SunsetBeetch · 27/01/2020 07:17

They're at it again, going after the Mail on Sunday for their article on Selina Todd (granted, the headline is rather inflammatory, but did they read the rest of the article?).

"Imagine how this headline from today's Mail on Sunday would read - and be received - if you replaced the word "trans" with the name of any other minority group. #StartSpreadingLove #StopFundingHate #UKPressTransphobia t.co/JKTQmcnaDF "

twitter.com/StopFundingHate/status/1221402145171345409?s=19

They are getting monstered in the replies, and are swiftly blocking everyone.

Siameasy · 10/11/2019 19:50

I don’t get this idea that by advertising in the Spectator eg Vodaphone are agreeing with what every single article ever says.

It wouldn’t be possible for every advertiser to agree with every article ever written. Keep going and there won’t be any newspapers reporting on anything

Stop Funding Hate are authoritarian bullies who will never be satisfied and I think big companies should use this moment to stand up for free speech

Glenthebattleostrich · 10/11/2019 18:56

I've tweeted naked wines (who I spend an embarrassing amount with) and cancelled my account.

Melroses · 10/11/2019 16:31

Hey, Waterstones! I usually buy a coupla hundred quids worth of books from you at this time of year.

I keep thinking that if Waterstones are going to take issue with what the Spectator publishes, then they will have to be prepared for people outside their company censoring the books they stock. Once you open the door to this way of thinking, it can backfire.

Siameasy · 10/11/2019 16:06

Basically it’s mimmymum and the others holding up a sign saying “don’t look here, nothing to see, move along”.
When the shit hits the fan people like us here will have a clear conscience

SandyDrawsBadly · 10/11/2019 15:47

I used to have time for Stop Funding Hate, but it’s just turned into “stop funding people we think are a bit mean.”

Apropos of nothing, I was just thinking earlier that if I was in deep denial about being a living example of Munchausen’s by proxy, I’d really want to throw myself into getting others to agree with me and distract myself with campaigning to punish those who didn’t go along with it.