Extreme extremism is extremist
The BBC is just a tiny bit evasive as it reports on misogyny and “extremism”…
Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said.
Tautology, dear BBC. Extremism will be treated as a form of extremism.
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”.
It’s still not clear how “extremism” is being defined.
The review will look at the rise of Islamist and far-right extremism in the UK, as well as wider ideological trends, including extreme misogyny or beliefs which fit into broader categories, such as violence.
Is the issue Islamist “extremism” or Islamist misogyny? Bundling everything into “extremism” just makes it all a soup, with no clarity about the ingredients.
This is also not the first time the government has considered misogyny as a form of extremism. For some years there has been concern around “Incel culture”, an online movement of mainly young men who describe themselves as “involuntarily celibate” and blame women and “alpha males” for their problems.
There is, of course, no mention of the misogyny of trans ideology.
But we’ve had years of “daily reminders” that TWAW, and that there’s NO CONFLICT between trans rights and women’s rights. Labour has been a big part of that push, carrying water for genderism as if Starmer &Co. were indentured servants, and proud of it. They’re going to lump men who claim to be women in with women, “transmisogyny” in with actual misogyny, in order to keep everything in one big, happy, forced-teamed family.
And the BBC is going to be coy about what consitutes “extreme” misogyny because it’s been part of the trans bandwagon too. With the lessons of the BBC’s complicity with Jimmy Saville all but forgotten, they’re not ready to ask themselves if they’re the baddies.
So confusion or misdirection? “We have really no clue” or “let’s sic MI5 on a few bad apples thus allowing us to ignore links that might lead to some uncomfortable places”? I genuinely have no idea but I’m leaning to “We need (to be seen) to do something and this is a (very poorly defined) thing.
But…but…but…how can TiMs be misogynist? They want to be women! Misogynists wouldn’t feel that way!
I swear, I’ve heard this argument too often. I lump it right in with ‘I can’t be misogynist. I love women. I have a wife and daughters, and I love them’.
Neither of those things preclude hating women as a group, and certainly not wanting to see women kept ‘in their place’. Also, TiMs often think actual women don’t ‘woman’ right; we need to be shown how.
Men who pretend to be women hate us with particular fervor and venom.
Whaddyawanna bet this will result in the government deciding they need more clampdowns on speech, more prosecutions of people for saying hateful, or perceived-hateful things, and UK citizens will continue to feel alienated and tensions will continue to rise.