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[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Colette Fairbanks was sacked from her job at the drug and alcohol rehabilitation charity Change Grow Live after sharing “offensive” posts about immigrants on social media, a tribunal hearing was told.

Not just pro-Brexit then, also a massive cunt.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Massive cunts are usually supporting Brexshit.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would be interested to see if anyone can find a pleasant Brexit supporter.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some people have seen Bigfoot. Allegedly.

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Hello. 👋

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago

I always thought mental disabilities are a protected characteristic, but I guess I’ve been wrong. (/s just in case)

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 1 month ago

Transphobia is, though, according to previous court rulings. Maybe if they threw in some TERF talking points, they’d have a case.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

And rightly so, racism and bigotry should not be protected.

[–] Streetlights@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Opinions are not beliefs, no matter how hard you hold on to them.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's my belief that that's just your opinion

[–] Streetlights@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

See you in court.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Having an opinion about brexit isn't a political stance it's an ideological one.

Brexit has provenly been bad for the UK so the the only way it could be defended is on ideological tribalism grounds.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These corpos barely provide work safety, discrimination is still a thing despite being illegal. There is nothing you can really do about other people behaving like that and corporate will always protect corporate. Expecting corporate to protect your "politcs" is naive.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You do realise she was working for a charity, right?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is that any different?

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have a think, perhaps you can figure out yourself what's the difference between a big corporation and a charity.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is a government sanctioned beaurocracy that is staffed by humans who behave as you would expect a human to behave.

Headline proves my point.

What point are you trying to make?

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is a government sanctioned beaurocracy

What on earth are you talking about?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Your point is?

All financial firms in the UK must be authorised too, are these "government sanctioned bureaucracy" for you?

Are you a USian by any chance?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 month ago

corporate will always protect corporate