Strange bigotry about red hair in England

In other places that I am aware of, red hair is more likely to attract positive comment. My father was a redhead and he was almost always addressed by a nickname that referred to his red hair: "Bluey" And no offence was intended or taken

The report below refers to "Britain". That is sloppy. It is the English who are the offenders. There are far too many redheads in Scotland for red hair to be a significant issue there

So why are the English often so hateful about red hair? I think it is because red hair is exceptionally common in Scotland and Ireland -- historic foes of England in war. Old prejudices die hard

An amusing report below about redheads having more sex. My very lively first girlfriend was a 16-year old redhead and there have been four redheads in my life -- two of whom I married

UPDATE: I am still in touch with that 16 year old Australian girlfriend -- now in her '70s -- and she confirms that her red hair has been all good in its effects

Red-haired children need more protection from gingerism and prejudice, a human rights charity has claimed.

Bullying people for their barnet was not 'harmless banter' and leads to abuse and suicide, Equalities and Human Rights UK said.

They said the discrimination has been present for thousands of years across the world but was 'particularly acute' in Britain.

It comes after a teaching assistant was fired for bullying including one case where he joked about a child's hair colour.

CEO of Equalities and Human Rights UK Chrissy Meleady slammed the idea of it being a 'laugh to belittle, demean and abuse' red-haired children.

She claimed it can be 'very harmful stripping these children of their positive self-identity and confidence' and could lead to 'trying to die by suicide'.

She told the Sheffield Star: 'Bullying red-haired people is one of the last socially accepted forms of prejudice against people for a trait they were born with, researchers say.

'It's not 'harmless banter' researchers say, due to the consequences and adverse impact of the bullying.

'Whilst it might be seen as a laugh to belittle, demean and abuse these children for being red haired or their phenotyical characteristic, it can be very harmful stripping these children of their positive self-identity and confidence and worse it can lead to school refusal, health problems, self-injurious behaviour and even children wanting and trying to die by suicide.'

Ms Meleady told how a family physically abused their baby for its ginger hair because they thought it was the 'mark of the devil'.

She said another was thrown down the stairs and was hit with a brick by other girls during bullying.

She added: 'There needs to be more done to protect red haired children, not just from gingerism or anti-red haired prejudice and abuse from other children, but from school and other settings members who model the bullying and abuses to red haired children.'

Last week a teaching assistant from St Wilfrid's Primary School in Sheffield was dismissed from his job after 13 years over bullying complaints.

The man, who has not been named, allegedly 'humiliated' a young vulnerable boy when he gave him a girl's name in the classroom.

He was also accused of searching the internet for 'Gingerphobia' during a lesson on Vikings, which saw a red-haired child teased by his friends.

Despite Ms Meleady's claims, a study in October found redheads were enjoying more romantic encounters.

The study's authors noted women with red hair – up to nine per cent of European females – 'tend to be the subject of various stereotypes about their sexually liberated behaviour'.

And in Britain, the report said, has more redheads than any other European country.

The Czech researchers wanted to find a connection between red hair and sexual behaviour, collecting data from 110 women (34 per cent red-headed) and 93 men (22 per cent).

The academics from Charles University, Prague, found redheaded women – but not men – reported greater sexual desire and activity over the past year.

Redheads had more sexual partners, 'higher sexual submissiveness' and started sex at a younger age.

The academics said: 'The apparently more liberated sexual behaviour in redheaded women could be the consequence of frequent attempts of potential mates to have sex with redheaded women.'

Katerina Sykorova, who compiled the report, said: 'The intensity of their sexual activity was relatively higher than the intensity of their sexual desire.

'This suggests that it is not the redheaded women's own initiative but higher demand for them which might be responsible for their higher sexual activity and higher number of sexual partners.'

The study said redheadedness was determined by 'the quantity, ratio, and distribution of the two main types of the pigment melanin: eumelanin and pheomelanin'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10394477/Red-haired-children-need-protection-gingerism-prejudice-charity-says.html

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German Anti-Cartel Agency Targets Google, Warns Amazon, Apple and Facebook They Could Be Next

The German government’s antitrust office has announced that Google meets its standard for regulation, a step toward possible action against the Big Tech giant.

“The Federal Cartel Office can now tackle concrete forms of behavior that harm competition,” office president Andreas Mundt said, according to Reuters. “We have already started looking more intensively at Google’s processing of personal data and the topic of Google News Showcase.”

The decision means that over the next five years, Germany can investigate Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company.

The website TechCrunch called the action “as significant as it is unexpected.”

Germany’s FCO said in a release that “Google is of paramount significance for competition across markets.”

“The company has an economic position of power which gives rise to a scope of action across markets that is insufficiently controlled by competition,” the agency said.

Mundt said Google is not alone.

“We are vigorously conducting other proceedings against Amazon, Apple and Meta, formerly Facebook,” he said.

A Google spokesperson said the company has done nothing wrong.

“We are confident that we comply with the rules and, to the extent that changes are necessary, we will continue to work constructively with the FCO to find solutions that enable people and businesses in Germany to continue to use our products,” the spokesperson said.

The FCO began probing Google’s use of personal information in May, followed in June by looking at the selection of news offered in its Google News Showcase.

Germany’s move comes as French officials fined Facebook and Google more than 200 million euros, about $226 million, saying the companies made it too difficult to avoid being tracked online, according to The Hill.

The two tech giants “offer a button allowing the user to immediately accept cookies,” but they do not provide an option to “easily refuse the deposit of these cookies,” a data privacy watchdog announced in fining Google 150 million euros and Facebook 60 million euros.

“Several clicks are required to refuse all cookies, against a single one to accept them,” the group said.

“The restricted committee considered that this process affects the freedom of consent: since, on the Internet, the user expects to be able to quickly consult a website, the fact that they cannot refuse the cookies as easily as they can accept them influences their choice in favor of consent,” it added.

In Europe, websites must ask users before tracking them, according to The Associated Press.

https://flagandcross.com/german-anti-cartel-agency-targets-google-warns-amazon-apple-and-facebook-they-could-be-next/

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DOJ Opens ‘Domestic Terror’ Task Force with No Federal ‘Domestic Terror’ Statute

In the mainstream media, it is becoming very apparent that an effort to equate the MAGA Movement with “domestic terrorism” is underway, and has been for well over a year.

This is yet another avenue of attack that the liberals are using to demonize their Republican counterparts ahead of the 2022 midterm election – a contest that looks more and more like the GOP’s to lose with every passing week.

Now, as the far-right continues to bear the weight of this new media-bred moniker, the Justice Department is getting serious about tackling “domestic terror”.

The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism, the department’s top national security official told lawmakers Tuesday as he described an “elevated” threat from violent extremists in the United States.

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen, testifying just days after the nation observed the one-year anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, said the number of FBI investigations into suspected domestic violent extremists has more than doubled since the spring of 2020.

“We have seen a growing threat from those who are motivated by racial animus, as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies,” Olsen said.

But there appears to be one major problem:

But the issue remains politically freighted and divisive, in part because the absence of a federal domestic terrorism statute has created ambiguities as to precisely what sort of violence meets that definition. The U.S. criminal code defines domestic terrorism as violence intended to coerce or intimidate a civilian population and to influence government policy, but there is no standalone domestic terrorism charge, meaning prosecutors have to rely on other statutes.

With no clear-cut definition of how to proceed, there are fears that the DOJ could be making this up as they go. And, given that they are working under a Democratic administration who’s already worked to vilify the MAGA masses, there’s no telling what sort of policies could be adopted in the coming months.

https://flagandcross.com/doj-opens-domestic-terror-task-force-with-no-federal-domestic-terror-statute/

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