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Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said.

Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the UK's counter-extremism strategy to determine how best to tackle threats posed by harmful ideologies.

The analysis will look at hatred of women as one of the ideological trends that the government says is gaining traction.

Ms Cooper said there has been a rise in extremism "both online and on our streets" that "frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy".

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You should know that the racists elon has been agitating didn't go further because they are like 5% of the population max, it really isn't what elon imagines it to be in his psychotropic stupor.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I know, but they are the right 5%.

You have the Guardian publishing their tripe, you have labor MPs all anxious about self-ID laws etc.

Unless the other 95% start making up for some serious lost time, it’s going to remain TERF island.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

No idea why this is getting down voted. Anyone with ten minutes of exposure to British Press (and not even the bat shit fascist stuff on The Spectator or GB News) should know all about the horrendous slanders trans people have to put up with on a daily basis.

Ffs, the UK literally just had people rioting in the streets last week.

Folks on Lemmy can be as clueless as they are heartless, sometimes.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried changing your news sources from gutter-tabloids to something a bit better?

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Dude. It’s the Guardian too. No where is safe from the TERF brigade.

That’s the shocking thing about being trans in Britain. There are no allies in print or politics anywhere In the main stream. Just fascists and terfs.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I remember some years ago some self-proclaimed "Feminist" writting articles in The Guardian about the "evils of men who use sex dolls" (I! Kid! You! Not!) totally unaware of the heavy parallels with how, some years before that, people would criticized sex between people of the same gender, something which at the time when she wrote that article that writter wouldn't do because it was unfashionable and frowned upon within her social circle.

The mindset amongst the supposedly liberal literaty there wasn't one of "what people do in the privacy of their homes with their bodies and other consenting adults is not for me to judge", it was still the same Pearl-clutching Moralism from the XIX century, excluding some "groups" since it was unfashionable and frowned upon to moralize about them.

So it doesn't surprised me to discover that in the years since I left that country, they reverted back to also moralize about and critizing LGBTA+