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Jenny Ruth's Just the Business's avatar

Amnesty has betrayed its founders.

Joe Macveigh's avatar

I used to attend Amnesty International’s annual conference and it was wonderful seeing like minded individuals who cared enough to support complete strangers and organisations who were in the most difficult and dangerous of circumstances.

Then this dumb report comes along and you wonder who’s behind this nonsense?

Dusty Masterson's avatar

They have been off with the gender woo for quite a while actually but this is the final straw!!

Gender Critical Social Worker's avatar

I was still donating monthly until this report was published (I wasn’t aware of the other slanderous report published by them earlier in the year). I knew they were captured but thought on balance they were still a good voice for political prisoners. This was the final straw for me though.

Helena's avatar

Couldn’t wish such a hideously embarrassing week on a more deserving institution.

Robin's avatar

Changing the subject slightly, I would like to bring to your attention a sector that was not included in the Amnesty list, which is breastfeeding support because most sources of this vital service, which was created to support women who need breastfeeding help, now also supports men under the banner of "inclusivity". Using babies as adjuncts to the "gender affirming care" protocols for men and/or as props in men's efforts to normalize their sexual fetishes has been added to the "everyone" that (formerly) mother to mother support services cater to: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/amnesty-international-nothing-to

Niamh Ni Argain's avatar

Most certainly. Breastfeeding hardly gets a mention amd is a near-taboo subject until 'stunning and braves,' get involved.

Basic biology is denied, so is acknowledging the bond between mother a d child- or even the definition of what those words mean!

All so some perverts might get off on the idea of themselves as 'people who lactace',?

Robin's avatar

Indeed. If you want an example of virtue signaling "inclusivity", you need to look no further than the welcoming of natal males into birth and breastfeeding support groups: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/inducing-magical-thinking

baker charlie's avatar

Anyone else remember back in the day ('16-'18), I do not remember if I saw this on mumsnet or the old gender critical reddit, but there was a pro-trans march in England (involving IIRC Stonewall and or Mermaids) that seemed to just 'spontaneously', 'Organically' feature matching placards and other signage that stated in the fine print that they were provided by Amnesty? That was about the same time the ACLU and Chase Strangio were rearing their head in the states.

Even before the rad fems started following the money, it was obvious who was bought.

I always predicted it would take a decade to reach public consciousness, but here we go!

Dusty Masterson's avatar

Yes Amnesty have been off with the woo for quite a while but this takes the biscuit!!

Terf vibes's avatar

How telling it all is of the lack of uncorruptable people in positions of influence and power anywhere today. Democracy is dead.

Rebecca in SF's avatar

I hope a groundswell of reality-loving voters will revive democracy by voting out any politician who supports this nonsense.

KDO's avatar

I keep

Commenting about this that people should remember Amnesty’s absolute refusal to back gay prisoners in soviet Russia. They said it was not a matter of conscience and left them in the prisons and asylums where they were sent to rot. I have never supported Amnesty because of this refusal, it seems the proverbial leopard has kept its spots.

Ruth Livingstone's avatar

Wow, I didn’t know this. Awful.

Terri's avatar

Really? Forgive me I’m a little sceptical.

Sufeitzy's avatar

Amnesty Amnesia. It’s the compliment syndrome to Waldheimer’s syndrome where as you get older you forget you were a Nazi. As freedom of conscience organizations age, they forget they were supposed to protect freedom of conscience.

Carol Beckett's avatar

Thanks Graham for pulling the whole show together. Hopefully amnesty staff are having lots of sleepless nights.

Neroli Wez's avatar

They used AI and didn't check it. Shame Shame Shame

trudie63's avatar

Maybe not as this organisation has gone to the dogs in the last decade. They have been infiltrated by propagandists and Liberal idiots. Shame on the person who wrote what is an egregious defamation document and shame on amnesty, a once great organisation now infiltrated by children with no life experience but excluding anyone who does not agree with them, just like school yard bullies

They must be stopped from publishing slander

Neroli Wez's avatar

You probably know more than me. I just thought it smacks of the kinds of mistakes AI makes. It's just gross. Infiltration is real.

Rebecca in SF's avatar

Aha, I think I see what you did there. A.I. definitely needs to be checked, and I hope some very aggressive lawyers will do so with force.

Niamh Ni Argain's avatar

Ever noticed how many people jusy accept hearsay as fact nowadays and don't bother fact-checking? Like the JK Rowling is a bigot, ' nonsense.

Wendy Cockcroft's avatar

How the mighty have fallen! Identity politics has a great deal tp answer for.

Terri's avatar

How did Amnesty get captured?

Rowan44's avatar

I wish that I had noted the titles and details of a few books that Amnesty had published and were selling through their shop, and forwarded them to Glinner, but I was pissed off and just let it go. Whatever they were, I see that Amnesty has withdrawn them; I cannot believe that they were a sellout.

Dusty Masterson's avatar

Great evisceration of the Amnesty Report, Graham.

Have cross posted including a piece by Iseult White, granddaughter of one of the co-founders of Amnesty, Seam McBride

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/amnestia

Dusty