Brighton TRAs bullying female small business owner

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Urgh. This is happening in my home town and it’s shit.

Happy Maki is a small, vegan cafe and takeaway. It’s a very ethical business. All about sustainability and green energy. They plant a tree and feed a child for each wrap made. It’s a gift economy and the food is free with a suggested donation. All very hippy. You get the idea.

A FTM trans person approached the female owner of Happy Maki and asked for support in fundraising for their top surgery. I believe they wanted a poster in the window asking for money. The owner refused. When pressed the owner said it was against her religious beliefs - she is a follower of the Divine Truth which admittedly sounds a bit ‘out there’ but not entirely unexpected given the nature of her business.

Anyway the TRAs have really gone to town and are posting in every Brighton based Facebook group, Instagram and Twitter accusing the owner of Transphobia and calling for her to apologise:

twitter.com/makiunhappy/status/1314261939833446400?s=21

They seem to be getting a lot of support and gaining a lot of traction too with many saying they are now going to boycott the business.

I’m upset about this for a lot of reasons. Obviously the female owner being bullied and harassed in this way and them encouraging people to email her. The lovely takeaway losing business. It’s also pretty tone deaf to attack the hospitality sector in the midst of a global pandemic for not supporting one individual’s elective, life changing surgery.

Anyway, the reason I’m posting here is in solidarity with the owner Anna. And if any of you lovely lot are nearby then consider getting a Happy Maki takeaway. The food is delicious and I’m sure they could do with some support right now.

www.happymaki.co.uk

Oops title is meant to say bullying

So they're basically demanding money with menaces?

It doesn't matter what her beliefs are, this total narc doesn't have the right to get her to shill for them. Absolutely disgraceful. Has she spoken to the police?

OldeMagick

So they're basically demanding money with menaces?

That's illegal in the UK, innit?

I agree, Anna needs to speak to the police.

So it’s extortion then? Nasty bullies.

It looks like the staff themselves have turned on her. Ten resignations? Bizarre. This is just one fantastical belief system clashing with another.

Well - I hope they don’t need references or that any potential new employed doesn’t google them. I’d run a mile of someone was asking for a job and turned it to be a nasty bully who tried to close down a business.

That’s terrible. I’m local too and will definitely be going out of my way to support this business.

www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk

Demanding money with menaces.

That’s a pretty chilling ‘statement’... sounds like they want a round of applause for not being violent!

Seems like a few issues all getting conflated... but certainly potentially libellous if nothing else...

It's a strange situation all round, especially as the individual wanting money wasn't even an employee.

Everyone I've spoken to in Brighton has heard about it one way or another and many are on on the side of the TRAs and are boycotting her business.

Does she have many posters in her windows? Fundraisers for any other individual?

That wasn't a mediation, it was an intervention. Basically the group uniting in browbeating and bullying an individual into submission. How bloody dare they behave like this.

Obviously there are a lot of wanky well off people in Brighton and Hove who don't give a shit about businesses going under dur to Covid-19.

If this business owner is legit and in need of support (seems so) there are lots of politicians, Business leaders, journalists and everyday people who would be willing to lend a hand nationwide.

I'd pay £12 for a slice of cake to be delivered to me. Or pootle on down on a day off and pay in person.

I wonder if they are targeting other businesses who dated to say no.

picklemewalnuts nope, I believe this is the only charity the business supports. Feeding hungry children in the world's poorest counties.

www.happymaki.co.uk/meals-trees

Best to start a list of the new gangsters demanding money with menaces/inciting extortion.

Scotland Yard.
GCHQ.
MET Police.
Brighton and Hove Police.
The Home Office.

This is home grown terrorism.

The above organisations need to be given the names, home addresses and contact details of these home grown terrorists.

What, so they can pay them a visit - and have selfies taken with them as they hand out sweeties?

The Law Courts are still sitting.

GCHQ ^^ is in action.

CEOP are in operation.

She might have been better saying that she doesn't support any other charities/charitable giving as it takes away from people supporting HER chosen charity.

But it is pretty awful to terrorize a small business this way.

These people need to take a long hard look at themselves. It’s ugly.

This. This right here is why MN is accused of being transphobic. You brush off her absolute batshit crazy cultish "religion" which was only started in 2007 by saying "it's a bit out there" and you think that her acting directly discriminating on the grounds of someone's gender identity is OK. Because its a transman who wanted to put the poster up in a cafe window in the most LGBTQ friendly city in Britain asking for support from random people for top surgery.

The cafe owner didn't say "no because I don't allow posters". Unbelievable the things some posters here will shrug off. Oh and when I was on twitter I would have been called a terf so I don't subscribe to the TWAW mantra and I do believe in sex based rights... but you and she are in the wrong here.

Boycotting is acceptable action. Others can take take up paying for services if they wish.

Demanding monies with menace/extortion is illegal and time in a prison cell is awaiting these people.