A safe, inclusive, and welcoming space for everyone

The boilerplate language of huffy cancellation is always interesting. Stroud Brewery’s apology & cancellation is no exception.

We were made aware of concerns regarding an upcoming private booking within the last 24 hours. After fast-tracking our usual internal processes and careful consideration, we have concluded that the event will not proceed.

Stroud Brewery is committed to being a safe, inclusive, and welcoming space for everyone. Our values guide every booking, and we take community concerns seriously. This decision reflects our commitment to ensuring that all members of our community feel respected and safe.

It’s almost funny. Almost. Our commitment to ensuring that all members of our community feel respected and safe EXCEPT THE ONES WHO WANTED TO HEAR THESE SPEAKERS.

In other words they’re trying to square the circle. We love our communinny, we love everyone in our communinny, we are nice lovable kind enlightened compassionate people, EXCEPT of course when it comes to those evil people who fail to believe that men can be women. Those people we hate and want to harm. Aren’t we lovely?

One comment from Team Cancel Them:

Thanks for flagging this – it does look like the author of the book holds views that would make members of our community feel extremely unwelcome which isn’t what the brewery is about at all (and why I love it so much as a space!)

Appreciate it’s a private booking, but the brewery is such a community space I think it would send the wrong message to allow the event to go ahead. It could taint the otherwise inclusive and welcoming feeling we all love.

Really glad you’re taking this seriously x

Oh that inclusive and welcoming feeling we all love – we all having the identical thoughts and knowledge that we all have, which empowers us to shun and banish people who have different thoughts and knowledge. That is the true incloosivity we practice.

Allowing and enabling a forum where people can gather and discuss their exclusatory views about how their opinions are more important than others wellbeing is not good community spirit. Well done stroud brewery for holding your inclusive policies and actively demonstrating your support for historically marginalised groups

Well done Stroud Brewery for cancelling a talk, there is nothing more incloosive than cancelling a talk by people who know that men are not women.

Many of the comments echo this rather blatant contradiction.