Friday, October 15, 2021
LGBT activists get word ‘mother’ axed from Scottish government policies
The term “mother” was removed from Scottish government maternity policies after they were lobbied by a leading LGBT+ charity, it has emerged.
Stonewall urged ministers to remove gendered terms from policy documents and replace them with “gender neutral equivalents”.
Documents released under freedom of information (FoI) legislation confirm that the charity wrote to the Scottish government last year encouraging them to adopt terms featured in their inclusive policy toolkit. The word mother now no longer appears on documents outlining maternity leave.
The FOI requests were made by the broadcaster and journalist Stephen Nolan for his BBC podcast Nolan Investigates.
Since 2013 the Scottish government has been part of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme
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The Rolling Stones retired one of their most popular rock songs due to lyrics that depict the horrors of slavery
The Rolling Stones are doing a tour of the USA, which they have called The No Filter Tour.
Despite the name of their tour, the Stones have caved in to leftist bullying and stopped singing one of their hit songs, Brown Sugar.
Brown Sugar is a song about the horrors of slavery, so one might think that lefties would appreciate the song.
But lefties cannot think straight because they have no real principles.
Lefties just want to sound righteous while imposing bans and conditions on others.
Underneath their fake “caring/compassionate” persona, they really just love power and control over others.
And when we accept that, then everything that lefties say and do, makes sense. They are power lovers, nothing else. /i>
The Stones have not played the 1971 hit “Brown Sugar” on their current tour and said the blues classic has been removed from their setlist.
“You picked up on that, huh?,” Keith Richards, 77, responded to the LA Times when asked if the Stones had cut the second-most-performed tune in their catalogue amid a climate of heightened cultural sensitivity.
“I don’t know. I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it.”
The first verse of the hit song depicts slaves being sold and beaten in Louisiana, with references to a “slaver” who whips “women just around midnight.”
The famous chorus portrays a non-consensual sex encounter between the violent master and a young female slave, while possibly also alluding to heroin use.
In the next verse, the song describes the abuse suffered by slaves on a plantation. Lead singer Mick Jagger ends the tune by singing, “How come you taste so good … just like a black girl should.”
“We’ve played ‘Brown Sugar’ every night since 1970,” Richards told the newspaper.
“So sometimes you think, ‘We’ll take that one out for now and see how it goes.’ We might put it back in.”
The Stones have played the song live 1136 times, second to only “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” according to setlist.fm.
“At the moment I don’t want to get into conflicts with all of this s***,” Richard said of criticism of the song. “But I’m hoping that we’ll be able to resurrect the babe in her glory somewhere along the track.”
The Stones were five shows into their “No Filter” tour Wednesday. The concerts marked the septuagenarians’ first gigs since 2019, and the first performances without drummer Charlie Watts, who died in August at the age of 80.
Jagger is clearly not singing the song in the first person, but the danceable tune has been slammed in recent years, with some critics dubbing it “stunningly crude and offensive.”
Other commentators have conceded it is “gross, sexist, and stunningly offensive,” but still rocking.
“I never would write that song now,” Jagger told Rolling Stone in 1995. “I would probably censor myself. I’d think, ‘Oh God, I can’t. I’ve got to stop. I can’t just write raw like that.’
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Rock and Roll is now dead. The Rebellion is over. Self-censorship is the rule of the day for fear of "offending" people.
Wow. If Brown Sugar is considered by some too offensive to perform, I can't imagine what they think of Some Girls. Their heads would probably explode.
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