Extreme Misogyny To Be Treated As Terrorism Under Yvette Cooper's New Crackdown

[The_DADDY]

Home secretary Yvette Cooper is looking to list extreme misogyny as terrorism, according to reports.

 

The Sunday Telegraph claimed Cooper has ordered a “rapid analytical sprint” of the current counter-terrorism strategy to address violence against women and girls, and identify any holes in the legislation.

 

It hopes to be able to “map and monitor extremist trends” and to understand what stops people from becoming radicalised.

It is part of a wider strategy which will also look at tackling islamist and far-right extremism.

 

The home secretary’s plans include making it a legal requirement for teachers to refer students they suspect of extreme misogyny to the government’s counter-terror programme, Prevent.

 

It comes amid growing concern that online influencers, such as Andrew Tate, have been radicalising young boys.

 

Cooper told the newspaper: “For too long, governments have failed to address the rise in extremism, both online and on our streets, and we’ve seen the number of young people radicalised online grow.

 

“Hateful incitement of all kinds fractures and frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy.”

She said that “action against extremism has been badly hollowed out in recent years” and that she wants to “crack down on those pushing harmful and hateful beliefs and violence”.

 

“That work will underpin a new strategic approach to countering extremism from Government, working closely with communities to build consensus and impetus for our plans,” the Labour MP said.

 

The government is set to unveil a new counter-extremism strategy next year.

 

The Home Office has already listed several extremism categories of “concern”, including “incel” (meaning involuntarily celibate), a misogynistic online subculture, but officials fear that does not capture all the nuances of extreme misogyny.

The announcement follows a report from National Police Chiefs’ Council last night, which found violence against women and girls is a national emergency

 

Your thoughts? 

 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/extreme-misogyny-treated-terrorism-under-092726164.html

[peak4]

I do wish that statements like these from Yvette Cooper were formally issued on a government announcements site first, so that it could be compared to potentially biased press releases.
It might help to prevent clickbait headlines such as this one above.
I struggled to find something more objective than this one in the Independent; some news sites have the "terrorism" comment in the headline, others in the URL; Indy avoids it in both.
I can't prove it, as I've not seen the press release itself, but I suspect she may have intended "extremism" with respect to misogyny, rather than "terrorism", though it's obviously a review of both.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/home-office-yvette-cooper-misogyny-extremism-b2597992.html
Misogyny to be treated as extremism under new government plans to tackle rise in hatred
Home secretary Yvette Cooper orders the review of Britain’s counter-extremism strategy in the wake of unrest fuelled by information online

Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans to tackle radicalisation online.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has pledged to crack down on people “pushing harmful and hateful beliefs” and to “kickstart” a new approach to fighting extremism.

Ms Cooper has ordered a review of Britain’s counter-extremism strategy under plans to combat the radicalisation of young men online.

The analysis will look at hatred towards women as one of the ideologies examined, along with Islamist and far-right beliefs among others.

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The Home Office says it will look at the rise of both Islamist and far-right extremism in the UK, as well as wider ideological trends, including extreme misogyny or beliefs that fit into broader categories like fixation on violence.

It will also look at the causes and conduct of radicalisation of young people, including the proliferation of dangerous material online.

[peak4]

Splitting the reply into two, as the previous one was getting long;

See also Sky, which seems to avoid "terrorism" as well
https://news.sky.com/story/home-secretary-yvette-cooper-to-crack-down-on-people-pushing-hateful-beliefs-13198972

 

From The Guardian, who I'll not link to as terrorism featured in the URL, though the article seemed OK

The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has vowed to crack down on people “pushing harmful and hateful beliefs”, including extreme misogyny, as she announced a new approach to fighting extremism.

The Home Office has commissioned a rapid review to inform a new government counter-extremism strategy on how best to tackle the threat posed by extremist ideologies online and offline.

The review will assess the ideological spectrum and is intended to address “gaps in the current system” that leave the country exposed to hateful or harmful activity that promotes violence or undermines democracy.

Officials will assess “the rise of Islamist and far-right extremism” alongside “ideological trends” that have gained traction including extreme misogyny. The scheme also aims to assess the causes and conduct of radicalisation of young people online and offline.

Cooper has previously said the last government’s counter-extremism strategy was nine years out of date. She believes the review will lay the foundations for Labour to deliver on its manifesto promise of preventing people from being drawn towards hateful ideologies.

It comes after a decade of warnings from the police and former government advisers about the need to address the rise of hateful extremism and the proliferation of dangerous material online.
[ of note in this Guardian article, the comment by Dame Sara Khan]

Last week Dame Sara Khan, who was Rishi Sunak’s independent adviser on social cohesion and resilience until May this year and acted as a counter-extremism commissioner under Theresa May and Boris Johnson, said the Tory government had left the UK wide open to far-right violence by ignoring red flags and stoking fires with a culture war agenda.

In a damning intervention, she told the Guardian: “The writing was clearly on the wall for some time.

All my reports have shown, in a nutshell, that firstly these extremist and cohesion threats are worsening; secondly that our country is woefully unprepared.

We’ve got a gap in our legislation which is allowing these extremists to operate with impunity.”

Cooper said: “For too long governments have failed to address the rise in extremism, both online and on our streets, and we’ve seen the number of young people radicalised online grow. Hateful incitement of all kinds fractures and frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy.

[Mister M]

Good idea.

 

Hatred of women seems to be the default position of various weird ideologies, and weird people.

I was reading that already a woman is killed by a man on average every 2.6 days in the UK. Clamping down on the weirdos who look at this statistic and say "more of that" is a good idea IMO.

[hackey lad]

What is extreme misogyny   ?

[The_DADDY]

5 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

What is extreme misogyny   ?

Good question. 

[Baron99]

Presumably in these days of total equality any possibility of future legislation of extreme misogyny, (I'll offer anyone a bet now, Cooper / Labour will never see it through), will also include legislation to protect men against extreme misandry. 

 

Nothing more than Cooper trying to grab a weekend headline. 

[Al Bundy]

How about extreme misandry or are men not as important?

[melthebell]

usual replies from SFs resident right wing male warriors  🙄

[Baron99]

Just now, melthebell said:

usual replies from SFs resident right wing male warriors  🙄

So you don't recognise misandry does exist, (alongside misogyny) & legislation to protect against it in these days of equality?