The social and economic costs resulting from hundreds of thousands who had their lives wrecked by heavy-handed opinion enforcement by HR departments are only just becoming clear. Already we are seeing attempts to ‘memory hole’ what happened to those who dissented against radical trans policies. The injustice of this is adding insult to injury and therefore I am launching sackedforwrongthink@gmail.com to ensure they are not forgotten.
Following the publication of the Cass Report and the vindication of those high profile dissidents whose lives were wrecked for simply voicing their concerns about radical medical interventions on children and the invasion of women’s spaces by biological men, it has become increasingly apparent that hundreds of thousands may have lost their jobs and careers for similar reasons.
In my article in last week’s Daily Sceptic I identified this issue based on the Free Speech Union’s robust research into the impact of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Climate (EDIC) workplace schemes and the numbers who have suffered negative consequences from their employer. It certainly mirrors what we see at my newly launched Common Sense HR Consultancy. The numbers of people impacted has all the hallmarks of being a national scandal of epic proportions.
There have been a number of articles in the mainstream media decrying this injustice and the negative impact of EDIC on employees, employers and therefore the economy, with comment from Kemi Badenoch and Dawn French, among others.
Today’s article by Dr. Kathleen Stock – herself no stranger to cancellation – in the Times is headed: ‘Turn of the woke tide will leave many stranded’. It’s a prediction that once the dust has cleared, little mention or recourse will be made to the thousands who were cancelled, bullied, fired and slandered during the madness.
The tragedy is that we are finding that many of those who were sacked are older workers (over 40) and long service employees who have never been in trouble before; many are women. Most don’t have the money to fight at an Employment Tribunal and certainly cannot wait the three years of the current backlog for justice. Three years is long enough for marriages to collapse, homes to be lost, children to grow up without the holidays and other memories; most people just try to put it behind them and get on with their lives. These are the stranded. In many cases their sacking was unlawful but their employers will never be held accountable. Many are proud and hardworking and are mortified that this has happened to them. It is a disgrace that this has happened in Britain in the 21st Century. That their voices will be silenced and forgotten is an absolute travesty.
That’s why we are launching an initiative to gather the stories of those who have been cancelled. There will be a website but in the meantime sackedforwrongthink@gmail.com is where to send your stories. We want to hear from you, in the strictest confidence. We cannot promise you justice, but we can at least get your story out there, anonymously if you prefer, so that there is a record of what happened, so they cannot ‘memory hole’ you.
If this has happened to you it is incredibly important to let us know. We will respect your privacy.
Once again it’s sackedforwrongthink@gmail.com.
C.J. Strachan is the pseudonym of a concerned Scot who worked for 30 years as a Human Resources executive in some of the U.K.’s leading organisations. Subscribe to his Substack.
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