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Ooh Look, they listened to my phone call, and changed it!
They even expanded the title to include Diversity. Yay.
Is it more than removing plagiarism, is it rainbow washing, or real change?
Like a Version
February 2023 version is exactly the same original June 2023 (for 2/3rds of it)
Well, the new page makes some new claims. Specifically
From 17 February 2023 – 5 March 2023 Argyle Housing displayed our logo with the Pride colours on all of our social media posts and banners on our website.”
The Computer says No. Or well, the web.archive.org server says so anyhow.
Not on the frontpage either, NSW or Victoria
I can’t be sure on Youtube, as the closest capture is later in the month, but after all, the Pride Month paragraph on the old Inclusivity page was up from June 2022 until 20th June 2023, so I don’t think they would have changed logo back in those extra 12 days.
Oh Look, they did! from the 15th until 7th March. Cool, four extra days.
An automated FaceBook temporary logo change, by the looks. No text, or acknowledgement, or events. Hmmm.
Two international Women’s day events, three job ads, but no Queer events in the same period.
I smell no Queer Spirit, or even Teen Spirit!
The logo itself has a distinct paintbrush low-res feel, apparently using the monochrome logo as source, not the proper gradient version, or a vector file. Half-assed office-nerd job.
On the new page, it looks like whoever hurriedly threw it up doesn’t know how to wrap text around an image, either. LOLs
More (LESS) Socials
No queer tweets in that time (or at all this year), can’t be 100% sure of no logo change, it wasn’t archived.
Nothing on Linked In either.
Youtube is even more barren, no new videos at all in last year.
Nothing queer on Instagram either,
I’m disappointed, most lies are slightly harder to prove. ONE logo changed out of SEVEN, and ZERO posts.
1/14 ain’t bad, right?
Oh, I guess the homophobic graffiti was up during that period. That’s close, right?
Shame Argyle, Shame Gay Shame, Shame Queer Shame
New Page – Content
Well, it is a nice try.
Still all a single issue, and I’m guessing written by ChatGPT, not a real person.
The prompt given might have caused some problems too.
Most of the content is focused on employing/educating people on and about diversity.
Kind of misses the whole focus of Argyle supposedly being on us, the people, and helping US.
“We have a responsibility to create programs for employees; develop recruitment processes with fairness at their core; create policies which protect individuals from discrimination; implement flexible working arrangements; encourage open dialogue among staff members; and celebrate differences.“
All very good for staff, what about US!?
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
So Benjamin Disraeli defined three types of lies.
At my reading of the twelve paragraphs,
- FIVE are about employees
- Three are about defining LGBTQIA+
- Two mention community. I really think they are in context of employees, but I can be generous
- Two are lies.
Lies?
“Sydney WorldPride and the 2023 Mardi Gras Festival WILL be a time“
- Writing as if it is a future event does not change the fact it was written in the last week of June, after a phone call from yours truly.
- Logo Fakery- One out of Seven :s
As mentioned above, and shown in the web archives it didn’t happen.
The person who quickly popped this page up this week doesn’t know much about WordPress either, shown here a second time.
Even the image file itself tells the truth, or more the path to the file repeats the lie.
“https://argylehousing.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AH_ONLY_PRIDE.jpg“
It was only uploaded to the site in June, 2023, not January, not February, or even March.
That last error actually made me laugh out loud 🙂
Pity it is all so sad.
Shame & more shame
and now for something different, a little
Musical Diversion from the pain
Funnily enough this was next song to play…
And then Heart Shaped Box