UK Gov’t to Treat ‘Extreme Misogyny’ Like Terrorism: Report

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'The new Labour Party government in Britain is reportedly planning on treating “extreme misogyny” in the same manner as terrorism amid a supposed rise of radicalisation of young men on the internet.

Teachers, healthcare professionals, and local officials in Britain may become legally obligated to report young men to the government’s Prevent counter-terror programme in the same manner as Islamic terrorism or far-right radicalism if they are suspected of “extreme misogyny,” The Telegraph reports.

Under the programme, those referred to Prevent are assessed by police and their local authority to determine if they are in need of deradicalisation training.

According to The Guardian, British boys are already being reported to the counterextremism programme by their schools for repeating Tate’s views or for “verbal harassment” of female teachers.

A Prevent staff member told the paper: “He [Tate] obviously doesn’t fit within the Prevent sphere but incels do. He is parallel to them and has a crossover. When I’m in schools I find myself describing him, effectively, as toxic misogyny on steroids.”'

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Extreme misogyny be it actual or perceived/labeled is a set of ideas. In the UK apparently holding ideas can be outlawed? If so no one is safe for believing anything the gov't decides to label as "terroristic".

Just to clarify, my objection is to the gov't policing any kind of speech. "Extreme misogynistic" speech may be highly objectionable, but no speech except such things as are meant to cause an immediate and unnecessary state of alarm (eg: yelling "fire!" in a theater when there is none) should be policed by the gov't. Of course I'm speaking as an American.

Glad to have the Bill of Rights.

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