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BBC issues 'ally' badges to heterosexual staff who promote LGBT issues in a bid to tackle its...
Daily Mail ^ | PUBLISHED: 16:59 EDT, 12 October 2018 | UPDATED: 16:59 EDT, 12 October 2018 | SUSIE COEN

Posted on 10/13/2018 8:14:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

FULL TITLE: BBC issues 'ally' badges to heterosexual staff who promote LGBT issues in a bid to tackle its 'heteronormative culture'

Staff at national broadcaster to wear pin badges to show they are 'LGBT allies'

BBC workers told to use the non-binary pronoun 'they' instead of 'he' or 'she'

Colleagues to EVEN change their email signatures to become more inclusive

Review wants to give LGBTQ+ colleagues promotions to create more role models

The BBC is encouraging staff to become ‘straight allies’ of colleagues who are gay, lesbian or have other gender identities.

The move is an attempt to tackle what it calls a ‘heteronormative culture’, in which being straight is considered the norm.

To shift the balance, staff who are heterosexual but ‘actively promote’ LGBT issues will wear pin badges or use email signatures to signify that they are ‘allies’ of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender colleagues.

As it strives to become more inclusive, the broadcaster will also adopt the acronym LGBTQ+ to reflect how ‘sexual orientation and gender identity blur beyond the L, G, B or T’.

LGBTQ+ stands for ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning’, with the plus sign including other sexualities, such as gender fluid, while ‘questioning’ represents those who are exploring their sexuality.

So-called ‘non-binary pronouns’ – for example, referring to someone as ‘they’ instead of ‘he’ or ‘she’ – will also be used by staff. Non-binary people who do not conform to male or female sexuality often prefer to be called ‘they’.

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"Heteronormative" culture bad, "Homonormative" culture good.
1 posted on 10/13/2018 8:14:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pink triangles?


2 posted on 10/13/2018 8:16:23 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3696215/posts


3 posted on 10/13/2018 8:17:07 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is what academia is becoming. Unless you are fully supportive of this crud you are not welcome.


4 posted on 10/13/2018 8:23:06 PM PDT by rey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Slavery is Freedom. Forward!


5 posted on 10/13/2018 8:26:21 PM PDT by atc23 (M*NKEY - there, I said it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you don’t get the badge you might lose your job. I would get one whether I deserved it or not.


6 posted on 10/13/2018 8:26:26 PM PDT by webheart (Grammar police on the scene.)
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To: Mr. Blond

What a load!


7 posted on 10/13/2018 8:26:30 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Satan loves to mark people too.


8 posted on 10/13/2018 8:26:33 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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How about necrophilia, pederasty, etc.....and I forgot murderers, wife beaters........Nonsense!!! We are here: “If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
9 posted on 10/13/2018 8:29:10 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: All

10 posted on 10/13/2018 8:32:12 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"They" is a collective noun, so it would be an incorrect usage of the English language.
11 posted on 10/13/2018 8:32:41 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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Coerced insanity never ends well ...


12 posted on 10/13/2018 8:33:06 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LIBERALS RUIN EVERYTHING!)
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To: Mr. Blond

There was another time people were forced to wear badges.

13 posted on 10/13/2018 8:33:17 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Liberals virtue shaming.

Since they have made vietue shaming them, illegal.


14 posted on 10/13/2018 8:34:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mark of the beast, the prequel. Wear a badge to show fealty.


15 posted on 10/13/2018 8:34:04 PM PDT by lurk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It's sexual harassment.

All the straight people (if there are any left) should file a civil rights suit.

16 posted on 10/13/2018 8:39:41 PM PDT by donna (Corporations are using censorship to destroy President Trump and achieve Globalism.)
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To: bagster

Seinfeld definitely was on the cutting edge.


17 posted on 10/13/2018 8:40:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I want a badge where it says i dont put up with ass muncher faghomo crap..


18 posted on 10/13/2018 8:41:46 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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I'd wear this badge.

19 posted on 10/13/2018 8:49:11 PM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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“Party pins! Gitcher Party pins! Can’t have a job without yer Party pin!”


20 posted on 10/13/2018 8:49:59 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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