{"id":154899,"date":"2024-03-30T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=154899"},"modified":"2024-03-27T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:44:19","slug":"more-correctness-from-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=154899","title":{"rendered":"More correctness from the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Consider the case of Ian Fry, if you will… if that sounded “Twilight Zone”-ish, it was intended to be.<\/p>\n

A primary school PE teacher who claimed he lost his career after being accused of sexual misconduct by a female former colleague is suing her for libel.<\/p>\n

Claiming to be a ‘whistleblower,’ Ms Agilah-Hood alleged Mr Fry had been put on ‘gardening leave’ in a former job after accusations of ‘sexual misconduct’ by female members of staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She claims to be a whistleblower and seems to think she is protecting students and women in general from this black-hearted evil doer. And it worked… his contract was not renewed and he is basically unable to get a job. One small fly in the ointment:<\/p>\n

Ms Agilah-Hood admitted in her email that she had ‘zero evidence’, but Mr Fry says that, despite it being ‘no more than gossip’, it has irretrievably ruined his reputation and career.<\/p>\n

The court heard that Mr Fry and Ms Agilah-Hood were formerly colleagues at a school where Mr Fry had worked before taking up his role at Worcester’s Northwick Manor Primary School.<\/p>\n

During that time, he coached the county championship-winning school football team and in 2021 went on to publish a book about his experience battling cancer.<\/p>\n

Ms Agilah-Hood, who describes herself online as ‘a mixed race, queer, neurodivergent visual artist, creative practitioner and performer’, sent her email to his headteacher during lockdown in March 2021.<\/p>\n

‘At the trial, the defendant submitted that it was her honest opinion that the claimant posed a risk to women.<\/p>\n

‘She realised as she said in the email that she had ‘zero’ evidence to back up her concerns, but she believed they were facts. Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So her evidence was… nothing. And for that she ruined his career? Luckily, in this case the judge decided in his favor and his suit against the ‘whistleblower’ will continue to a full trial. I know which side I am rooting for. And it ain’t the nose-ringed one.<\/p>\n

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And shifting to Lloyds, the massive financial folks, we have even more dumbassery. Lloyds has released a new guide to language which is almost mindboggling.<\/p>\n

\u201cWidows\u201d too must go. Apparently the term is \u201cunnecessarily vivid\u201d and may \u201ctrigger unwarranted personal memories of trauma and upsetting situations\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They suggest using the term “separated”, presumably equating\u00a0 “we need some time apart” to “he’s DEAD, Jim”.\u00a0 I am sure to the widows it’s all the same.<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s a problem with the cancellation of this word in particular, notably that Lloyds owns Scottish Widows \u2013 a 209-year-old life insurance and pensions firm that manages almost \u00a3200 billion in assets \u2013 yet we\u2019re still waiting to hear whether the company is to be renamed \u201cScottish Separatists\u201d.<\/p>\n

It gets better. The phrase a \u201cheadless chicken\u201d \u2013 linked to a traditional farm practice of killing a chicken by beheading it, after which it would continue running around for a moment \u2013 has been banned, alongside \u201csold down the river\u201d (historical US slavery connections) and \u201cpenetration testing\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Calm down, lads, that last refers to IT testing, you don’t need to volunteer. But it sounds creepy, so it’s gotta go. Along with “guinea pig”:<\/p>\n

In a new \u201cinclusive language\u201d guide issued to its 57,000 employees, the banking group has zeroed in on these tiny mammals, insisting they are recognised as the patent threat to our mental health that they are. Apparently just using the words \u201cguinea pig\u201d in an office setting could be triggering for some, invoking, as they do, images of cruel laboratory experiments.<\/p>\n

Only here\u2019s the thing: the woke generations it\u2019s presumably aimed at and pandering to are statistically the least happy in history. Even in their blinkered states and vacuum-sealed bliss bubbles, they are more anxious, depressed, work-shy and dysfunction-prone than any other. So this negativity-washing isn\u2019t just failing but is proving itself to be overwhelmingly counter-productive.\u00a0 The Telegraph<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Couldn’t have said it better than the lady who wrote the op-ed, Celia Walden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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