Oxfam Charity Beyond Parody "local" may be offensive

[arista]

BBC News text :
[Oxfam has come under fire after issuing
a new 92-page guide on inclusive language
to its staff, the Mail reports.
The paper says the guide describes the word
"headquarters" as "colonial",
suggests "local" may be
offensive and says the phrase
"people who become pregnant"
should be used instead of "expectant mothers".
It quotes former justice secretary Robert Buckland
calling the guide "totally bizarre" and
questioning whether it
is a good use of the charity's time and resources.]

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[Cherie]

I would never give a penny to this scandal hit lot

[user104658]

Might be better to spend their time and resources on making sure their representatives aren't exploiting women in disaster-struck countries by paying them to attend their probably-cocaine-fueled orgies.

Sorry, sorry, "fairly paying legitimate sex workers".

[bots]

who in their right mind would give to oxfam, they have such a terrible track record

[Gusto Brunt]

The inmates have taken over the asylum. :rolleyes:

[Cherie]

The inmates have taken over the asylum. :rolleyes:

Jumping on a current trend that only a minority want is sure to help their cause...not

[Gusto Brunt]

Jumping on a current trend that only a minority want is sure to help their cause...not

It's like they're all trying to outdo each other - who can be even more barmy. :shrug:

What will they ban next, or say is offensive?

[Cherie]

It's like they're all trying to outdo each other - who can be even more barmy. :shrug:

What will they ban next, or say is offensive?

I guess it helps deflect from their actual misdeeds...look at us we are so inclusive..meanwhile....in the real world

[Crimson Dynamo]

A vile organisation run by cretins and hand-wringing virtue signallers with coloured hair

[Liam-]

What’s the beef with Oxfam?

[Oliver_W]

Might be better to spend their time and resources on making sure their representatives aren't exploiting women in disaster-struck countries by paying them to attend their probably-cocaine-fueled orgies.

Sorry, sorry, "fairly paying legitimate sex workers".

You should apologise, you forgot to say you also meant "vagina-havers" :nono:

[Cherie]

What’s the beef with Oxfam?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/timeline-oxfam-sexual-exploitation-scandal-in-haiti

[user104658]

What’s the beef with Oxfam?

They have an alarming history (multiple incidents) of their staff going to deprived/disaster-ridden parts of the world and then sourcing & paying women for sex at big ol' Oxfam Orgies.

You'd think this was an exaggeration but unfortunately it's not, and it was seemingly covered up at a company-level for years.

[Gusto Brunt]

I guess it helps deflect from their actual misdeeds...look at us we are so inclusive..meanwhile....in the real world

True.

[arista]

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[Mystic Mock]

Nobody will use clinical terms to describe their parents.

To clarify I'm gonna guess that Oxfam wants the term "birthing parent" to be used?

[Gusto Brunt]

I laughed at a presenter on GB News.

He was saying we can't say blackmail because black is offensive and bad. But he says if your bank balance is in the black, that's good.:joker::joker:

Madness. :hehe::joker::joker:

[Zizu]

Soooo … tomorrow is now to be known as ..

Parent identifying as female who got pregnant a while back … day

???


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[Tom4784]

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Literal pretend outrage for simpletons to foam at the mouth over.

Most people here went to school, although it's hard to believe with some of them, we all had letters to take home and they always said 'Parent or Guardian'. It was never 'To the mother or father of ____', it was never specific.

Crying about someone simply saying parent instead of being specific is just ragebait for GC morons looking for reasons to be mad.

[Mystic Mock]

Literal pretend outrage for simpletons to foam at the mouth over.

Most people here went to school, although it's hard to believe with some of them, we all had letters to take home and they always said 'Parent or Guardian'. It was never 'To the mother or father of ____', it was never specific.

Crying about someone simply saying parent instead of being specific is just ragebait for GC morons looking for reasons to be mad.

That is a fair point about School letters.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Literal pretend outrage for simpletons to foam at the mouth over.

Most people here went to school, although it's hard to believe with some of them, we all had letters to take home and they always said 'Parent or Guardian'. It was never 'To the mother or father of ____', it was never specific.

Crying about someone simply saying parent instead of being specific is just ragebait for GC morons looking for reasons to be mad.

What type of school is Oxfam?

surely a reading comprehension pro would not make such an error?

:hehe:

[Jordan.]

Literal pretend outrage for simpletons to foam at the mouth over.

Most people here went to school, although it's hard to believe with some of them, we all had letters to take home and they always said 'Parent or Guardian'. It was never 'To the mother or father of ____', it was never specific.

Crying about someone simply saying parent instead of being specific is just ragebait for GC morons looking for reasons to be mad.

Very true!

[Tom4784]

What type of school is Oxfam?

surely a reading comprehension pro would not make such an error?

:hehe:

Aw bless, your brain has been so rotted by all this **** that you lack common sense and can't distinguish between a common and old example of 'Parent of Guardian' and how it renders this fake outrage pointless and me saying that Oxfam is a school. It's a shame how your generation is being rendered completely and utterly impotent by such easy-to-see-through bull****.

Why don't you go relax by watching a youtube video that you'll use as the basis of your outlook and opinions because you have none of your own.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Aw bless, your brain has been so rotted by all this **** that you lack common sense and can't distinguish between a common and old example of 'Parent of Guardian' and how it renders this fake outrage pointless and me saying that Oxfam is a school. It's a shame how your generation is being rendered completely and utterly impotent by such easy-to-see-through bull****.

Why don't you go relax by watching a youtube video that you'll use as the basis of your outlook and opinions because you have none of your own.

insults

#rattled

[Cherie]

Lets deflect with school letters rather than whats actually gone on?

[Cherie]

That is a fair point about School letters.

are you for real Mock? women have been raped....but you are happy with the fact that school letters have mentioned ...parents...... like wtf

[user104658]

Literal pretend outrage for simpletons to foam at the mouth over.

Most people here went to school, although it's hard to believe with some of them, we all had letters to take home and they always said 'Parent or Guardian'. It was never 'To the mother or father of ____', it was never specific.

Crying about someone simply saying parent instead of being specific is just ragebait for GC morons looking for reasons to be mad.

It doesn't seem like a direct comparison to me - schools do that because they don't know who is going to be receiving the letter (as they're printed and sent out en masse) so it's a catch-all. It SEEMS to be that Oxfam is suggesting that people use "parent" in place of mother/father even in cases where it is known, on the basis of "not assuming gender". It's not really the same thing.

[Tom4784]

It doesn't seem like a direct comparison to me - schools do that because they don't know who is going to be receiving the letter (as they're printed and sent out en masse) so it's a catch-all. It SEEMS to be that Oxfam is suggesting that people use "parent" in place of mother/father even in cases where it is known, on the basis of "not assuming gender". It's not really the same thing.

It really is the same thing, you're just trying to split hairs to push this ridiculous narrative. It's the NHS thing all over again when you were all losing your minds about the language when none of you actually checked the NHS website because you fell for the bait hook, line and sinker. The only part in the NHS guide to pregnancy that used a lot of the language you silly people were complaining about was in the section aimed specifically at LGBT parents. The outrage was never about these terms 'erasing' women because anyone with eyes and basic reading skills could see that wasn't the case, the outrage was that there was an LGBT section at all.

A child's caregivers have pretty much always been referred to as 'parents or guardians'. It's a catch all term that's only seen as a problem now because GCs love to invent nonissues to cry about. These people have nothing going on in their lives, clearly.

[Mystic Mock]

are you for real Mock? women have been raped....but you are happy with the fact that school letters have mentioned ...parents...... like wtf

Oh I can't stand Oxfam after that particular scandal that you're on about, but I'm just agreeing with Dezzy that certain settings don't refer to gender and will be more formal/clinical with how they speak.