{"id":1216404,"date":"2022-01-14T12:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216404"},"modified":"2022-01-14T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:49:36","slug":"ginger-lives-matter-equalities-ceo-says-gingers-need-better-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ginger-lives-matter-equalities-ceo-says-gingers-need-better-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginger Lives Matter: Equalities CEO Says Gingers Need Better Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fginger-lives-matter-equalities-ceo-says-gingers-need-better-protection%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216404&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-178368667-e1642086537905-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Individuals with ginger hair could be the next protected characteristic with a UK Equality Charity CEO warning of prejudice against them.<\/p>\n<p>Chrissy Meleady MBE, CEO of Equalities and Human Rights UK, has suggested that \u201cGingerphobia\u201d is one of the last \u201csocially accepted forms of prejudice\u201d directed against people \u201cfor a trait they were born with\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Meleady, who is a redhead herself, has highlighted that gingers have faced abuse for thousands of years, and the problem has been described as \u201cparticularly acute\u201d in modern day Britain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In her statement Meleady also highlighted incidents where prospective parents have stated they would accept any child \u2013 including transgender kids or children with disabilities \u2013 bar a ginger one, and one case where parents physically abused their baby for having red hair \u2013 claiming it was \u201cthe mark of the devil\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.co.uk\/news\/people\/sheffield-human-rights-advocate-calls-for-more-protection-for-children-with-red-hair-3523672\">Speaking<\/a> to the Sheffield Star, Chrissy Meleady also called for more to be \u201cdone to protect red haired children\u201d from \u201cgingerism or anti-red haired prejudice and abuse from other children\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Breitbart in response to Meleady\u2019s views, political commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sophielouisecc?s=20\">Sophie Corcoran<\/a>, who has ginger hair said, \u201cDon\u2019t turn us gingers into the next victimised or oppressed group \u2013 we have all experienced our fair share of ridicule, but there\u2019s a very clear difference between banter and bullying \u2013 we must draw a line between the two. #GingerLivesMatter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the historic abuse that gingers received includes&nbsp;in 15th-century Germany, where ginger-haired people were believed to be witches and an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/why-its-good-to-be-ginger-haired-tjqmkzczxzj\">45,000<\/a> were tortured and murdered, it was claimed in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Schoolchildren with red hair have also previously been beaten and \u201cleft bleeding\u201d on the unofficial \u2018National Kick a Ginger Day\u2019, said to be on the 20th of November, in both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2465752\/Schoolchildren-beaten-classmates-organise-kick-ginger-kid-day-inspired-South-Park.html\">Britain<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3334535\/Red-headed-school-kids-targeted-students-Kick-Ginger-Day-inspired-South-Park.html\">United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A University College of Cork-based study in 2016 reported that \u201cmore than ninety per cent\u201d of ginger men have been the victims of bullying across the World, the&nbsp;<em>BBC<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-28872927\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals with ginger hair could be the next protected characteristic with a UK Equality Charity CEO warning of prejudice against them. 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