NSPCC cut ties with MB

[CarpetDiem]

Read it on Twitter, OJ is crying over at the guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/11/munroe-bergdorf-nspcc-staff-condemn-decision-to-cut-ties-with-trans-activist?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Link fail, try again www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/11/munroe-bergdorf-nspcc-staff-condemn-decision-to-cut-ties-with-trans-activist

Assuming that letter was employed staff only, not volunteers, then that's 10% of the staff. I suppose it's good it wasn't more, in the current "woke" climate in the charity sector.

It feels like the NSPCC will have to respond to this internal challenge, rather than just try to ride it out - I wonder what they will do?

Are grown adult NSPCC staff seriously weaponizing they way they feel at a non-job being non-jobbed to the person who claimed they had that non-job, to children being bullied for being GNC?

Or am I misreading that whiny, vacuous tweet?

I’m no fan of Bergdorf, and Bergdorf’s aggressive self-promotion has partly put Bergdorf in this position, however, the NSPCC/Childline should have done their due diligence before collaborating with Bergdorf. It should have been easy to see that Bergdorf was a risky choice, at best. They dropped Bergdorf in quite a cruel and humiliating fashion, in my opinion, and it was all unavoidable.

I wouldn’t take that staff letter too seriously.

If a director or senior manager had told their department to sign it, or asked for a show of hands, would you be the one to decline? Could easily be ‘signed’ by whole departments on the basis of two or three senior staff lobbying.

Also remember this is an organisation that appears to operate purely on woke feelz and no actual rigour. What credible organisation round robins a letter from staff about this sort of thing?

I wonder if those 150 people would change their minds if they were aware of Bergdorf's past homophobic comments? Or would they just find reasons to justify that behaviour?

It would be fantastic if the NSPCC now felt driven to make a clear public statement listing all the reasons we know of why Bergdorf is unsuitable, which could be published in the media. I wonder if the Guardian would print it?

But of course that would also make them look dodgy for employing 150 people who would sign such a letter in the first place.

It's infuriating - Childline is an important and valuable service. And they've been lured into facing a possible drop in donations now by following the gender ideology pied piper.

I think the other current thread might give you an idea why NSPCC cut ties before the whole sickening lot comes out. Which hopefully it will now anyway.

There are several threads already about this

They dropped Bergdorf in quite a cruel and humiliating fashion, in my opinion, and it was all unavoidable.

I completely agree. She was never a suitable choice for them, and it's astonishing that they didn't see that before. They are the ones at fault for jerking her around, and I say that as as a GC feminist.

Crosspelican Have look at the most recent comments on the other, long thread about this. The NSPCC person who chose Bergdorf is the president of a London rubber fetishist association, and had stuff about it attached to his Linked In profile.

CarpetDiem Could you change the title of the thread? I thought this was another thread about MB not about the letter and the gardian article. Just so people don't miss it thinking its a duplicate.

@kesstrel - Oh God, I didn't know that. Yikes. They're even more at fault then if it wasn't a case of an overly woke committee blindly supporting MB.

They dropped Bergdorf in quite a cruel and humiliating fashion, in my opinion, and it was all unavoidable

Absolutely. It was up to NSPCC to do due diligence before they contacted her- not for Bergdorf to ask "are you sure?". NSPCC comes out of this very badly.

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