Colleague made sarky comment about me re. GB News

[OneStepBeyondd]

Discussion at work earlier - does anyone watch the news. Another colleague and I said we don’t mind GB news on occasion to which someone said (directed at me) - ‘I didn’t have you down as one of them’ in a judgemental tone.

Is it me or is that a bit rude and unnecessary?

Oh really? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

What do you think this means then @blossomtoes?

This is what it says

What will constitute a genuine and qualifying belief in relation to religious and philosophical beliefs will continue to be determined by the courts and will depend on the circumstances of each case. Case law will continue to clarify this area of law but in the meantime the EAT has confirmed that philosophical beliefs (such as left-wing democratic socialism) can attract the same level of protection as religious beliefs.

Can or might or may on a case by case basis.

Oh dear, didn't you get as far as the headline on this one?

"Political beliefs at work protected by the Equality Act"

Or the subheading?

"A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case, GMB v Henderson, has confirmed that the Equality Act 2010 (EqA) affords protection from discrimination relating to philosophical/political beliefs."

😆

Then it changes its mind in the paragraph I quoted.

No it doesn't. All the evidence is quite clear and precisely what I originally said. Some political views can be protected under the Equality Act, and whether they are depends on the application of the Grainger criteria. You're looking foolish now 😆

I don’t think so. But you’re not very good at interpreting evidence, are you?

The second link I shared, where a law firm CONFIRMED that political beliefs CAN be protected under the EA, and you stated I was misunderstanding that is what we are discussing. It’s a much simpler breakdown of the tribunal.

Are you just pretending to not understand? Or are you really confused?

Interpret this for us then, please.

I have. Try reading as well as writing.

This is your level of discourse? Is this how you regularly interact on here?
Denying the existence of something which everyone can see (because I’ve posted it multiple times) and then saying we’re stupid because we don’t know what you know while refusing to elaborate?

Ok

Crack on.

I'm clearly much better than you 😆. You must be so embarrased now. You tried to set yourself up as an expert and you've been proven wrong. That must be humiliating for you.

Of course when Covid broke out, the consensus and direction of research for 30 had been that masks did not work to contain respiratory viruses, the research supported that, and still does today. The overwhelming pushing masking as a science strategy was completely fake and the vast majority of the mainstream media supported that entirely.

But yes, the fact is the media only has itself to blame for the lack of trust.

😂

Come on OP, that's like saying you read the Sun and wish it still featured bare breasted young women to drool over each day. It's your choice though so be proud of it but do expect others to be 'rude' when you mention it.

I don't know a single person who watches it! But then I don't count extreme right wingers amongst my friends, thankfully.

You don't have to be a left winger to see that awful programme for what it is - a mouthpiece for misogynists and racists

Sounds like you have lovely friends, good for you! I have lovely friends too. They’re all
of different political views, most left, some central and some ‘extreme right wingers’. I love them all, whatever their political view.

They’ve practically been a lone voice in speaking out against the trans ideology. One of the biggest threats to women in our generation.
I can’t imagine all the gay presenters on there would agree with your assertion of it being a homophobic outlet either.

Yes, there is a certain kind of person on the left - or really, a certain kind of person mired in identity politics - who thinks that anyone black and conservative, or gay and conservative, must be a bit stupid and self-hating.

It's deeply patronising and frankly racist.

It's actually pretty notable how many of the really great journalists and popular thinkers on the right are gay, or to a somewhat lesser extent, black. And aside from vague generalisations about how anyone can be racist or homophobic, it's really difficult when thinking of them to work out what people actually mean. In what way is someone like Andrew Doyle, or say, Douglas Murray, homophobic? What is it you think constitutes homophobia when you say something like that?

Andrew Doyle's Free Speech Nation on GB News featured interviewees the BBC refused to talk to — people like Helen Joyce, who the BBC allowed on Radio 4 for the first time a week or two ago. It's shameful that someone like Helen, a world-class journalist who stumbled into the wonderful world of Gender Ideology when she was asked to investigate it by the Economist (one of the most respected, serious, in-depth publications in the world) was blacklisted by the BBC. And yet Media Bias holds the BBC up as the gold standard of impartiality. Media Bias can go fuck itself. There can be no doubt that the BBC has been in the hands of transactivists for several years.

It's people on the despised right, like Andrew Doyle and Toby Young, who have fought for women of the left, like me, to be able to speak. I've had banners torn out of my hand by a policeman who didn't approve of me saying STOP TRANSING KIDS and TRANSWOMEN ARE MEN. I think the whole GI debacle has revealed how authoritarian the far left is.

I'm back to this thread while watching Headliners. The only show on GB News that is openly intended to he funny.🙈

It's not.

Anyone else watching?

This ☝️

No, thank you for taking one for the team.

Watch it then. If you’ve got an ounce of decency or critical thinking in you then within two minutes you’ll be joining the MN club!