Sober piece by @jameskirkup on what happened with @nspcc & Bergdorf & the shameful way most media have covered this https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/06/munroe-bergdorfs-sacking-and-the-failure-of-the-media/ ….pic.twitter.com/MOzzX1deYG
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Also just rereading the final sentence from OJ's piece "Drag is a “cultural phenomenon” that had no age limit. “There is absolutely nothing wrong with kids playing dress-up if that’s what they want to do".
This is in regard to questions to Bergdorf about this 10 year old child dancing on stage at a club where adults give them dollar bills. This is not "kids playing dress up" @guardianhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgq7MNasA9Q …
And then there is the @nscpcc changing their definition of sexual abuse, so that it is only abuse if the child is "worried" or "frightened". What about children who are groomed into thinking it is normal or loving? No. No. No.pic.twitter.com/jNnExTSRK3
Do we now know that’s definitely what they were doing? It’s certainly what I’ve inferred from the evidence. We KNOW they have at least 150 on staff with no understanding of BASIC SAFEGUARDING!
They say it was a failure of systems and processes. And they say (in the second to last paragraph!) that "we have not provided staff with appropriate processes" for opening relationships with new volunteers. Or at least not for celebrity volunteers?pic.twitter.com/VZwQITG4rH
A possible explanation as to media silence:https://twitter.com/stilltish/status/1138020606228815872?s=21 …
The media silence is deafening.
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