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Why are ASDA normalising paedophilia and Child Abuse?

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Sunkisses · 16/06/2020 08:02

Is it OK for ASDA to send parents emails linking to an organisation that normalises paedophilia with red flag phrases such as "love has no age", and recommending books for children that contain explicit descriptions of child sex abuse? Why are they doing this? Are ASDA experts in home schooling and safeguarding? More details in this excellent thread by Safe Schools Alliance: twitter.com/SafeSchools_UK/status/1272638132589035520

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Watchagotcha · 17/06/2020 12:00

If Asda really wanted to celebrate diversity, why don’t they lead the way by removing all the gender-based labelling of children’s clothing and toys? That would be a stand worth making. Just label the clothes as “children’s clothes” and let them choose if they want unicorn sparkles or camouflage t shirts?

furrypesto · 17/06/2020 12:06

@hoodathunkit
Dodgy charities claiming to provide (always very expensive) specialist mental health service to people who claim to be survivors of satanic ritual abuse with dissociative identity disorder use the exact same carrot and stick approach.

Are you able to name these charities and their approaches?

SerenityNowwwww · 17/06/2020 12:07

Ahahahahahahahahahaha! Daily Star - Grin

dobbleby · 17/06/2020 12:17

If Asda are so interested in inclusion & diversity it would be interesting to know what the pay their lowest paid workers? Are they are a fan of zero hour contracts? What % of BAME are in those jobs vs those on the board?

Michelleoftheresistance · 17/06/2020 12:21

Every scrap of material created by third parties and used by schools should be checked and rechecked by independent safeguarding experts before any of it is used.

This needs to happen, and be legally binding for all resources marketed as educational. This stuff is being flooded out by nobody knows who with nobody knows what qualifications or quality control, and it's a safeguarding loophole the size of the Blackwall Tunnel. And yy to independent safeguarding, not some captured bit of the DfE.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 17/06/2020 12:25

@dobbleby

ASDA the model for equality and diversity

ASDA stores gender pay gap
Look at the % of women by pay quartile Top v Bottom

gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Employer/AV59NcZc/2019
www.gmb.org.uk/news/gmb-hails-asda-equal-pay-judgement

Michelleoftheresistance · 17/06/2020 12:26

I see from the Star's article that Asda are 'disappointed' that silly mummies have taken it out of context and failed to be broad minded enough.

About a PIE slogan and a description of a six year old giving oral sex.

Aesopfable · 17/06/2020 12:26

Come September Sex Ed is compulsory and they are allowing all manner of perverted groups to provide dodgy materials under the guise of ‘LGBT’ and we can’t pull our kids out! Schools are even refusing to let parents see what they are teaching. How can that have been allowed to happen?

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 17/06/2020 12:26

Separating the links more clearly

gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Employer/AV59NcZc/2019

And

www.gmb.org.uk/news/gmb-hails-asda-equal-pay-judgement

RogersVideo · 17/06/2020 12:28

If ASDA think that parents buying school uniform from them gives them a mandate to normalise child sex, then I will make it a point to never buy school uniform from them. Or anything at all, actually.

SerenityNowwwww · 17/06/2020 12:28

They got in the PIE reference and that book info pretty well though - repeatedly. And the fact that it was unsolicited and sent for 3-11-year-olds.

Where's Private Eye when you need them?

hoodathunkit · 17/06/2020 12:32

Are you able to name these charities and their approaches?

Indeed I would

However to do it properly I would need to provide all the links which I just don't have time to do right now. Also I am working on something more substantial than posts here, but I will post a link once it's done

Basically there are dangerous people working in mental health, including in the NHS who promote SRA consiracy theories who are also involved with real abusive cults. More to follow when i have things in a more coherent form

One organisation of extreme concern, and most skeptical, rational people know about it, is the Clinic for Dissociative Studies founded by Valerie Sinason. A google search for her turns up a lot of deeply concerning material, an archive news search is good also. She claimed that Jimmy Savile was a satanist. She was also a central figure in the appalling "documentary" on channel 4 Being Pamela which is available to watch on youtube.

Pamela Edwards, an extremely vulnerable young woman, appears as the central figure in the programme. Sinason was her therapist and a consultant to the programme makers.

The programme uses this extremely vulnerable young woman to promote the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and does not disclose that Pamela's foster mother at the time of filming, Judy Williams, was also involved with the Clinic for Dissociative Studies in a professional capacity.

This use of a vulnerable person as a mascot for the purpose of virtue signalling and to try to gain credibility is very unsavoury as is the lack of professional boundaries and the dual roles inhabited by Judy Williams

evidential links

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1491414/Being-Pamela...-and-Sandra-Susan-Andrew-and-Margaret.html

Note Judy Williams' involvement with various "trauma informed" organisations that promote SRA narratives the ISSTD, ESTD, the Pottergate Centre and the Bowlby Centre in the below archived link to her personal website

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180720051337/www.withinmind.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">web.archive.org/web/20180720051337/www.withinmind.co.uk/

Have to stop now as my eyes need a rest

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 17/06/2020 12:32

I would love to be a fly on the wall in their boardroom (virtual fly in virtual boardroom?)

Not the sort of PIE any food retailer is interested in. I assume they are horrified.

IrmaFayLear · 17/06/2020 12:33

Frankly the “age has no limits” or whatever is hardly the most repugnant bit. The whole pack contains deeply unpleasant material and also the deeply unpleasant message that “everyone is doing it” and you’re the odd one out or a frigid prude if you don’t enthusiastically partake of these practices. Not a good message for young people, especially not vulnerable young people and, indeed, children.

SerenityNowwwww · 17/06/2020 12:34

'we can’t pull our kids out' - we can (thank god).

We were sent the outline - mostly sensible stuff around the law, drink/drugs, STIs, mental health, sex/pregnancy, why sending naked selfied isn't a good idea (and can get you into serious trouble), coercion....

There has been brought in consultancy to advise (oh the money-spinner). I looked at their site - of course, heavy on the LGBT but does seem to know the EA and refers to girls ad boys in the relevant context.

Oddly enough there was a link to several of the factsheets (you could click on the PDF image and see the artwork) they use and the only one you couldn't see properly was the LGCT one (for some reason it was all fuzzy on the visual) so you had to fill our details to download it. Mostly 'shiny happy people' but it did use the 'Cis' wors (in the glossary) but DS knows better than to use that word around me.

dobbleby · 17/06/2020 12:39

Thanks for those figures wonder what the pay & representation is like for ethnic minorities vs white

Very diverse

corporate.asda.com/our-story/leadership

dobbleby · 17/06/2020 12:56

I don't have an issue with schools teaching about same sex relationships etc as part of their SE but schools have safeguarding leads & training because SE is complex & their needs to be awareness of pupils.

Sex education shouldn't be coming from supermarkets.

dobbleby · 17/06/2020 12:57

there not their

SerenityNowwwww · 17/06/2020 13:01

'but schools have safeguarding leads & training ' - but are often bringing in toolkits/consultants from some shady characters.

It's bad enough when it's forced at schools without a bloody grocery store getting in on the act too.

justanotherneighinparadise · 17/06/2020 13:04

[quote dobbleby]Thanks for those figures wonder what the pay & representation is like for ethnic minorities vs white

Very diverse

corporate.asda.com/our-story/leadership[/quote]
🤣

littlbrowndog · 17/06/2020 13:20

Very diverse indeed. 🤣

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SerenityNowwwww · 17/06/2020 13:22

Yes go - buy it. Stop asking.

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