Hobbycraft employee badge - no terfs, no Tories

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Another example of why bringing your whole self to work is a terrible idea.

Hobbycraft seems to be busy trying to mitigate the fallout, presumably because they know which demographic spends the most money there.

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/5359520/dundee-hobbycraft-trans-row/

No. Any badge like that is unacceptable, especially at work.

As I said in my second post on this thread, I was being flippant about the Tories bit. I then had people get worked up about my condemnation of the Tory party, and explained why its important to not dismiss it as ‘just politics’ in the way the #BeKind brigade think we should let Nigel-in-a-frock into women’s safe spaces.

If someone’s ‘beliefs’ (or political policies) actively harm others, they should be condemned, this ‘agree to disagree’ dismissal is allowing the likes of Michelle Mone to defraud the country by supplying PPE that wasn’t fit for purpose and put NHS staff at risk during covid, and never be prosecuted or pay it back

Criticising and countering political views is all good and well in a healthy democracy.

Calling other people 'vermin' is not that.

You can go ahead and condemn policies all you like, and I might have engaged with the issues you'd raise, had you not shown your hand by using dehumanising rhetoric.

I'm unsure if people professing to be on the left have become more extreme and violent in rhetoric, or if I've only started to notice it more in the past few years.

There have always been people who were happy to hurl terms like 'scum' and 'vermin' at anyone they think is a Tory, I suppose.

The irony is, the Tories are a spent force and largely irrelevant in the UK today.

I suppose a pivot to monstering Reform voters is the inevitable next step in the depressingly hollowed out, tribal and simplistic tit-for-tat that passes for discourse today.

Imagine if we actually tried listening to each other and trying to understand, in good faith. Fuck me, we could move mountains.

https://genius.com/The-cast-of-rupauls-drag-race-uk-season-5-dont-ick-my-yum-m52s-version-lyrics

'[Verse 3: Ginger Johnson]

Terfs and Tories make me spew
There's no hate on my menu
Tolerance and self-respect
Loosen up my gag reflex'

Tolerance, except of people you disagree with, ffs.

@MarvellousMonsters thank you for answering my question.

The thing is, it's not just that dehumanising rhetoric bothers me, it's also lazy. It's people thinking they're being clever when they're recycling Jasper Carrott's "Sun reader" jokes from 45 years ago.

I suspect a lot of it's about this flattering self-image of people on the left being smarter, more morally good, the decent people in society, simply because they're on the left. Polly Toynbee does this a lot. It's not an idea that survives contact with the world of left-wing activism, which contains some of the worst people I know.

Yes, this is it, really. They think that being on the left means they are always right and always better than everyone else, even when they're bullying others, being intolerant, having women cancelled for their views, and all the rest of it.

I would like to point out we aren't all like that on the left, and some of us really are tolerant in the true sense of the word, but as usual, the worst aspects of the group are shouting the loudest!

And, as if the song needed to be any more distasteful, the reference to a gag reflex being loosened is particularly 🤮

The words "ick" and "yum" both make me want to vomit tbh, especially when uttered by grown adults.

Their morals are rotten to the core
Keep the Tories out our store
Reform supporters make us mad
Kick them out so they’ll be sad

Your poetry is just as good as I'd have expected. Masculine end rhymes all the way, eh? It would scan better if you omitted 'are' in the first line. And punctuation wouldn't go amiss.

This ⬆

I am always open to constructive criticism 😊

Many of your posts say otherwise

Do your homework. Read widely. Remain open minded.

And yet you have ignored my long and thorough post about "what the right has ever done for us"

Perhaps selective reading is Brave & Stunning?

BTW, Abraham Lincoln was a Republican

Yes, and he was probably one of the finest men in history!

I suspect a lot of it's about this flattering self-image of people on the left being smarter, more morally good, the decent people in society, simply because they're on the left. Polly Toynbee does this a lot.

Yes and sent her children to private school.

Looks like the story's reaching the national papers: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/28/shop-bans-woman-no-terfs-badge-dundee-hobbycraft/

Yeah, i used to follow vintage style/pinup Cherry Dollface on Facebook, until she came to the UK and posted a video saying "F**k JK Rowling", so i posted a comment & unfollowed her. They'll have to learn the hard way.

Blimey you really are UTTERLY blinkered.

Also in the Times now:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/c28a056c-fc09-4012-9bb2-21b63cf2fe41?shareToken=5f0fb8923ef57c4b15e3aacdd7c7ea43

Ah, everyone who disagrees with you is fascist.. OK

You might want to purchase a dictionary. 🙄

Your argument appears to be:
They are wrong because everyone hates them.

(Everyone doesn't hate them, clearly).

Everyone is wrong then.

When do the schools go back?

Edit for typo