Misogyny and violence against women identified as gateways to extremism, leaked Home Office report says
Misogyny and violence against women identified as gateways to extremism, leaked Home Office report says
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An online subculture called the ‘manosphere’ was identified as a gateway to extremist views by the Home Office report. Misogyny and violence against women have been identified as gateways to extremist beliefs in a leaked Home Office report that urges the government to approach extremism based on concerning behaviours instead of ideology.
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Those include spreading misinformation, influencing racism, and involvement in “an online subculture called the manosphere”, according to the Policy Exchange think tank, which obtained a copy of the review commissiond by home secretary Yvette Cooper following the summer riots.
Ms Cooper said in August she had directed the Home Office to conduct a “rapid analytical sprint on extremism” to map and monitor trends and inform the Government’s approach. The think tank said the review lists “behaviours and activity of concern” and “damaging extremist beliefs” including misogyny, violence against women and girls and having a “fixation on gore and violence without adherence to an extremist ideology”.
It also lists “spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories”, “influencing racism and intolerance” and involvement in an “online subculture called the manosphere”. It also says claims of “two-tier” policing are an example of a “right-wing extremist narrative”.
