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Nearly Sane

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Lego, let it go!
« on: November 12, 2016, 02:04:48 PM »
Not the biggest fan of boycotts and while I find the Mail often repulsive, unconvinced that this is constructive


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lego-ends-advertising-daily-mail-stop-funding-hate-campaign-a7413361.html

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Re: Lego, let it go!
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2016, 02:27:09 PM »
Another brick off the wall?
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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Re: Lego, let it go!
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2016, 04:49:53 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37962425

Do folk here agree that companies should stop using media and other channels which portray migrants in a negative light to publicise and advertise their wares?
Are your, or your friends'/relatives', garages, lofts or sheds full of unused DIY gear, sewing/knitting machines or fabric and haberdashery stuff?

Lists of what is needed and a search engine to find your nearest collector (scroll to bottom for latter) are here:  http://www.twam.uk/donate-tools

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Re: Lego, let it go!
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2016, 05:09:52 PM »
Much as I dislike the "Daily Hate Mail", this isn't an easy one for many of us, Hopem because it has a whiff of censorship and none of us want that!

However, the article quotes thus: 
Lego told the BBC it spends "a lot of time listening to what children have to say. And when parents and grandparents take the time to let us know how they feel, we always listen just as carefully."

I believe that Lego have made a well thought out decision and agree in principle.
Let us profit by what every day and hour teaches us