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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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Clymene · 16/06/2020 10:58

@AntsInPenzance : "Watch the video again and write down anything you think makes a good slogan that is used in the video. e.g. Love has no age limit, my heart doesn’t see race (NB explain that it is important to recognize our differences, e.g. race)."
Page 21 of the primary school resource pack or whatever it's called.

It's linked in the opening post of the twitter thread and here's the kink directly from Asda

https://www.diversityrolemodels.org/media/1451/diversity-role-models-home-learning-pack-primary-school-v1.pdf?cmpid=emc-geor-egeoreorhsafGE00001727727Wk-25&utmsource=email&utmmmedium=email&utmcampaign=GEORGE&utmmcontent=GEORGE&utmterm=GEORGEE&mi=Mf2hIY9cXtwaJwRo2a2r89vWPgcmkxj5Le6trWqDDqMy1pxcQGyC4pxnQe2vfQaby%2BjVcyKQWQH0QnKcir900HW1tHMt2D&cwd=geo&cwf=nat&cwc=crm-awa&dclid=CKevnr6IhuoCFQMj0wodF5gFAA

ChurchOfWokeApostate · 16/06/2020 11:00

This was absolutely intentional.
They will throw children u see the bus for their woke cookies, and make sure they lick every crumb off their fucking fingers

StoorieHoose · 16/06/2020 11:00

Asda struggle to be able to fulfill online orders without substitutions or missing items - maybe they should concentrate on that rather than educating children

Ninkanink · 16/06/2020 11:01

I live right next to a M&S which I have boycotted since November last year when they told women straight out that they were held in absolute contempt. Along with John Lewis/Waitrose who did the same. So I started shopping more at the other supermarket I live right next to: ASDA. I will not set foot in any of their stores again. I have a long memory and I am extremely stubborn.

Luckily there is an ALDI and a LIDL only a few minutes further away.

NiveaSunday · 16/06/2020 11:02

So it's LGBT month. Asda are proudly displaying the rainbow logo. Was this a diversity tick box exercise to display corporate wokeness?

justanotherneighinparadise · 16/06/2020 11:04

@StoorieHoose

Asda struggle to be able to fulfill online orders without substitutions or missing items - maybe they should concentrate on that rather than educating children
Couldn’t agree more. Get your core house in order FFS. A recent order I received from them was the saddest collection of poor quality and rotten food I’ve ever purchased. As quick as i put an item in my online basket it went out of stock. The whole experience was embarrassingly bad.
Chiochan · 16/06/2020 11:05

Even lesbians and gay men who try to defend their organisations from those promoting child abuse are accused of phobias. Gays and lesbians have been refuting the peodophile lable for decades if not centuries and now its being sneeked in under cover of same sex attraction acceptance.
Discusting.

StayinginSummer · 16/06/2020 11:07

I just read the Diversity Role Models pack. On the face of it, it seems fine, with ‘everyone can love everyone’ basically saying that love is always okay.

HOWEVER, even knowing a smidgen about safeguarding, love is not always just okay. Some children in primary school will, unfortunately, be being abused in the name of love. Love has no age limits - even to suggest this - completely tears a bulldozer through safeguarding.

It is naive as it has nothing to say that children, if they are ever taught about anything to do with relationships, are given clear information on limits, and boundaries. Love can be a very manipulative tool.

ValancyRedfern · 16/06/2020 11:08

This is abhorrent

Notjustamum10 · 16/06/2020 11:08

I've read through the Primary School Packs and I don't see anything in the content that would concern me as a parent. My kids have friends with same sex parents and I don't see that promoting the idea of families coming in different shapes and forms offensive, quite the opposite. What I find offensive is that a supermarket is deciding how our children should be educated - wouldn't supermarket donations to food banks, schools, after-school clubs, etc be of more use to children?

Thisisworsethananticpated · 16/06/2020 11:09

The website and home learning packs are fairly standard messaging and seem to be more oriented towards race and accepting homo sexuality and Different types of family

So NO idea how it went so awry

ProfessorSlocombe · 16/06/2020 11:09

Outlaw possession of written accounts of child abuse says MP

There is a fundamental problem if such material is not published. You've just (re) invented thought crime. Bear in mind we are quite happy with written - and visual - depictions of almost all crime anyway.

I posted that link to note that had the world turned slightly differently, ASDA might be looking at a very different outcome. Although as we know in the UK, the best way to avoid criminal charges is to undertake crime as a company.

ChurchOfWokeApostate · 16/06/2020 11:09

Someone needs to get the red tops running these stories, surely this would make a better front page than JKs ec husband bragging about abusing her

NiveaSunday · 16/06/2020 11:12

Love can be a very manipulative tool.

This with bells on.

The generous sprinkling of the word love across these dodgy materials is very concerning.

It sounds very much like a free love pamphlet. I'd go as far as saying the Magenta book actually promotes child abuse.

Is it worth emailing MPs?

2fallsagain · 16/06/2020 11:12

@antsinpenzance on primary pack

Why are ASDA normalising paedophilia and Child Abuse?
StayinginSummer · 16/06/2020 11:13

@Notjustamum10

I've read through the Primary School Packs and I don't see anything in the content that would concern me as a parent. My kids have friends with same sex parents and I don't see that promoting the idea of families coming in different shapes and forms offensive, quite the opposite. What I find offensive is that a supermarket is deciding how our children should be educated - wouldn't supermarket donations to food banks, schools, after-school clubs, etc be of more use to children?
What if you were a child and being abused by your parent in the name of love? And school told you that all love is okay? What if it were by a same sex parent and it was inferred that this is especially okay and not to be questioned?

By saying everything is okay it misses out what is not okay.

I know I read it too and on the face of it... fine... until you see that even a casual reference to love has no age limits, love is always okay, goes against safeguarding. I’m not an expert but I can see, it’s not protecting the vulnerable.

AntsInPenzance · 16/06/2020 11:13

@Clymene.

I watched the video linked in the home pack. The love has no age limit slogan comes from an Ad Council video and is only used in relation to an elderly married couple.

That seems to be the only connection between Diversity Role Model and the phrase 'Love has no age limit'.

I would recommend anyone concerned about that phrase watches the video for context. It has put my mind at ease.

StayinginSummer · 16/06/2020 11:15

@NiveaSunday the magenta book - isn’t that written child abuse? I honestly can’t believe this.

I’m someone who doesn’t get involved that often in this kind of debate. It’s shocking.

cheeseismydownfall · 16/06/2020 11:15

I've just pledged support to one of the SSA campaigns here:

Schools must not be allowed to facilitate the intimidation and criminalisation of children for protecting their own boundaries and stating simple biological facts.

www.crowdjustice.com/case/challenge-cps-schools-guidance/

StayinginSummer · 16/06/2020 11:17

I watched the video linked in the home pack. The love has no age limit slogan comes from an Ad Council video and is only used in relation to an elderly married couple. as a young impressionable child, being abused at home, in the name of love, and being shown this slogan. I don’t think the child would get that it’s for old people only. I think they’d feel acute shame and confusion. The point of safeguarding is that the child’s needs come first surely?

Igmum · 16/06/2020 11:17

I've emailed the Asda ceo. [email protected] hopefully they will see sense. This is insane

Ninkanink · 16/06/2020 11:19

It is part of a much bigger and wholly abhorrent picture.

Example and thoughtful, incisive discussion here

(This is only one aspect, but I am trying to help people to connect the dots.)

Deeply disturbing, and unfortunately quite endemic.

There is a very good reason (many, in fact) that many of us are pushing back so vehemently.

There is a very good reason (many, in fact) why JK Rowling said what she said, and campaigns in the way she campaigns. There is absolutely no hate in what she said. She was 100% right to speak out.

If anyone hasn’t read her essay, please do.

Schoolisback1973 · 16/06/2020 11:24

Reading that page! Shock
Disgusting! Vile!!

Ninkanink · 16/06/2020 11:25

And here is another aspect of this highly aggressive agenda. It’s already happened in some countries; They are orchestrating it in England too.

It’s all connected.

StayinginSummer · 16/06/2020 11:25

There is a very good reason (many, in fact) why JK Rowling said what she said, and campaigns in the way she campaigns. There is absolutely no hate in what she said. She was 100% right to speak out. I agree. Honestly I’ve not been campaigning against transgender rights and have been focusing on other things in my life. However I wondered why people were so hateful against JK Rowling, so I read what she said.

She was balanced, non hateful, non discriminatory. She was putting forward her views eloquently and peacefully.

I ended up completely confused as to why people reacted. It was as if she had said terrible things. But she hadn’t.

I am always deeply, deeply suspicious of any point of view, or proposal, or promotion, that is not open to robust, respectful debate. That includes myself! If I can’t listen to an opposite point of view, there’s something wrong.

The sheer aggression and suppression is disturbing.