LUSH & “the right side of History”

[NitroNine]

LUSH’s Dublin branch (on Henry Street) have decided to effectively announce their support for Hamas despite it being a proscribed organisation in the EU, UK & US. Jaysus.

To just run through some of their greatest hits as discussed on MN:
• in 2012 they ran a hugely sexualised campaign to oppose animal testing
• they foist a guide on “How To Be A Trans Ally” on customers (2018)
• donations from November 2019‘s Charity Pots go to Trans Media Watch (controlling the media narrative doesn’t come cheap)
• the Edinburgh branch announce they wouldn’t serve anyone in a “woman: adult human female” t-shirt (2020)
• facilitating providing binders to children without the knowledge of parents in 2021
• refusing funding to lesbian groups (2021)
• the 2022 “trans kids belong” campaign

Even living in London & despairing utterly of the Met Police as I do I still think their 2018 Spy Cops campaign was cynical, manipulative, & just a marginally more sophisticated way to say “ACAB” rather than a genuine attempt to address the incredibly serious issues that had been uncovered.

”The right side of history” indeed 🤨

They could have attacked a military target. They could have blown up a bridge. They could have made a mess of an empty office building at night to make a point.

Instead they murdered unarmed families in their pyjamas, kidnapped nannas mums and children, gunned down people dancing in a field.

This was meticulously planned terrorism. Barbaric wilful Terrorism.

I can’t believe people are trying to justify it.

I remember that one branch of Lush was handing out free breast binders for girls and telling the girls that they didn't need to tell their parents.