stephen fry is the president of mental health charity ‘mind’. cancel your donations and explain why. - ThreadSky

sloanefragment.bsky.social • 70 days ago

stephen fry is the president of mental health charity ‘mind’.

cancel your donations and explain why.

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This is awkward for me.

My local branch runs a trans support group, headed up by a trans therapist.

I'm also trans therapist (retd).

zebraspoons.bsky.social•70 days ago

My wife's MCC had been raising a couple of grand a year for them. Because politics I don't understand they couldn't loudly sponsor LGBTQIA+ specific charities so they do disability, mental health & hospice/cancer charities. They do a few annually at the rally, mind had been on the books for so long

zebraspoons.bsky.social•70 days ago

I mean we'll be letting them know what that tiny shortfall in funding is about.

caponatacommie.bsky.social•70 days ago

Mind is really dodgy. This is a charity that gave me a therapist while I was quite vulnerable that was a Jordan Peterson fan. And when I complained, my complaint went nowhere.

pumabare.bsky.social•69 days ago

It's depressing the people I've had respect for for decades turn out to be fucking assholes.

nizzy.cc•70 days ago

Aren't Mind also somewhat associated with the current Farmer's protest movement? I know the one up here was raising funds for them while doing their little tractor traffic jam

thespaceskeleton.bsky.social•70 days ago

I'm not going to stop giving to a charity just because of the awful opinions of its president. He doesn't profit from it. It's not like boycotting Harry Potter movies here, Mind do good work and I'm not going to help a fucking CHARITY collapse over the views of some washed up old git.

nebbynebula.bsky.social•70 days ago

The other replies here suggest it's not a great charity either, fwiw

sloanefragment.bsky.social•70 days ago

that isn’t what i meant.

i meant the last time he attacked a group, child sexual assault survivors, they had a word with him.

he has form.

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