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Pro-foxhunting group says UK hunters should qualify as a protected ethnic minority group. (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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  • Chair of Hunting Kind says he has built legal case to obtain same protection as Roma and LGBTQ+ people. They have prepared a legal case to try to prove that hunters are an ethnic minority whose hunts should be protected under equality laws.

  • Ed Swales, the chair of Hunting Kind, claims he has been advised by a leading human rights lawyer that hunters unequivocally qualify for legal protection under the UK Equality Act 2010.

  • Speaking to the FieldsportsChannel podcast, Swales said: “The qualifications of an ethnic group, there are five of them, and we hit everyone straight in the bullseye.”

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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 66 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They want the same protections as the Roma? So they want the government kidnapping their children? I mean protections on the level of the Roma is their loss but if that's what they want....

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 10 months ago

If someone is willing to teach their kids it is a fun hobby to torture and murder wild animals then they probably should have their kids taken away.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 64 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

We’ve found it folks; the minority more oppressed than freeze-gamer

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 10 months ago

Aristocratic and bourgeoise hunters were the OG gamers though.

Remember the huge hunts Mongols organised? That was literal mmo-larp for war.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They're just making it up.

"as a protected minority group under the Equality Act"

There's no such thing as a "protected minority group" or "qualifications of an ethnic group" under the Equality act, there are protected characteristics (and references to groups therewith), none of which come close to describing anything about fox hunting groups (whose only common characteristic is that they are bourgeois).

[–] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 57 points 10 months ago (3 children)

why is terf island like this

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Their crisis expands so the culture war distractions also gets even more ridiculous.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago

Backwards feudal system remnants

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The anglo brainpan has been stunted for quite a while now

[–] shitholeislander@hexbear.net 47 points 10 months ago

when we have a revolution in britain, one of the ironic policies I hope to see enacted is that we arrange "fox hunts" in which former members of the landed gentry are chased across fields by packs of vicious dogs and armed revolutionaries on horseback

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

British aristocrats are probably genetically distinct after centuries of inbreeding

[–] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

We absolutely CAN NOT let this breech containment.

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

pill all prackers

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

You can say it, i ain't gonna delete it

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago

I'm going to petition to change the word "oubliette" to something sufficiently British like "wailingpit" so as to be ethnically considerate of these fuckers when we toss them all down one.

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago

that's an outdated term, nowadays we prefer People of Hunting

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago

The IRA didn't go far enough, it seems.

[–] shath@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

live-slug-reaction

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Most photogenic Br*tish aristocrat.

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

These people truly deserve to be hunted like animals, so I guess they got the right idea to preemptively seek protections

[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

Can't this dipshit list the qualifications then if there are only five lmao.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

Executions all round

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ACAB (Assigned Carnist At Birth).

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They don't eat the foxes, do they? I'm under the impression it gets a lot of shit compared to all other forms of hunting both because it's a rich failson hobby but also because it's just for the sport of it, like big game hunting

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Do they even take the fur? Regardless, they're a bunch of chumps. If you're gonna kill animals for fun, the least you could do is make things a fair fight. Having a horse, a dozen bloodhounds, and whatever guns doesn't seen very sportsmanlike.

The hunters should only be allowed to hunt on foot naked using daggers. And the foxes should be replaced by Americans with guns.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

they must take the fur, if they didn't care about the fur staying together they could just shoot them instead of running them down, right?

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

And the foxes should be replaced by Americans with guns.

https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/FOX

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

legal protections from whomst...?