• 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 [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    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
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      1 month 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.

  • CarbonScored [any]
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    1 month 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).

  • shitholeislander [none/use name]
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    1 month 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 [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    British aristocrats are probably genetically distinct after centuries of inbreeding

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    1 month 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.

  • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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    1 month ago

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

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      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 [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        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 [love/loves]
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          1 month 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 [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          And the foxes should be replaced by Americans with guns.

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