Leading women’s rights groups have warned that the far right movement has “hijacked” the issue of women’s safety for political gain.
More than 100 organisations have written to prime minister Sir Keir Starmer to urge the government to stop far-right groups from “weaponising” violence against women and girls (VAWG) for a “racist, anti-migrant agenda”.
It comes after weeks of far-right protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers across the country, with many participants claiming to be there under the banner of “protecting” women and girls in their community.
Deadliftdeadlife on
Some very clearly have
You also have legitimate concerns being waved off because clearly the person is just a racist
So there’s 2 sides to every coin and neither should be ignored
neukStari on
Warning , Far left have hijacked children’s safety for censorship gain.
Struck a nerve did I?
ironyperson on
“Protect our women and girls” (so that we can beat them instead).
coffeewalnut08 on
Not surprised. A lot of the rioters had domestic abuse records themselves. But sure, they’re def standing for the wOmeN anD kIds!
It’s also a massive distraction. Fascists screaming about women and children is an easy deflection from the bread-and-butter issues.
CooperAXE on
Most these scum have a history of domestic abuse against women.
Too-Much-Plastic on
I mean yeah, if you want visceral uncritical support then ‘protect women and kids’ is a great lever to pull, it works amazingly well. Especially because if you oppose whatever the idea is then you are *not* protecting women and children, it’s stupid of course but it works.
John_Williams_1977 on
And far left groups hijacked the debate to start with.
10 years of nothing done on migration or LGBT rights because any attempt at progress is scuttled by lunatics shouting down any other point of view.
So, society rallied and we got Trump. Well done activists. Thanks for that🤦♂️
Spamgrenade on
The far right are the biggest threat to women in the country (and children, don’t make me post the list). Half of the guy arrested at the protests have previous for domestic abuse, more than I can count from the EDF etc. have been locked up for child abuse and one has even been done for people smuggling.
I mean… just look at them.
Tree-mendous on
I don’t know if getting into an abandoned vehicle counts as “hijacking”.
Handonmyballs_Barca on
I bet the far-right probably are using the issue to push an anti-migration agenda. But they didnt hijack the issue, they picked it up after it was abandoned by the political centre. Everyone now knows how the government effectively abandoned white, working class women to grooming gangs who targeted them because of their race and religion. Everyones aware that foreign born men are sometime four times more likely to sexually assault women and yet the government seems fine with large numbers of mostly men arriving illegally in the country and then vanishing.
For years the concern when these crimes were brought to light wasn’t ‘how do we stop this’, it was ‘racists will gain influence’. They ignored the plight of the victims and allowed the far-right to seize the narrative as defenders of those victims, because for the most part they actually were. For years Tommy Robinson was vilified for his claims on muslim grooming gangs, turns out he was 100% right. Unless the government focuses on this very real problem and less on arresting people who tweet the wrong thing then the far-right will actually become something to worry about.
Didn’t LBC do an interview with some people at the Epping protests outside of these refugee hotels and one of the “concerned citizens” is a well known Neo-Nazi?
lithaborn on
I’m trans.
Ya f-ing think!?
I can’t piss in peace because of the far right dog whistling us as monsters and perves while they’re free to r@pe and SA anyone they want with no repercussions.
They took their five minute detour to f- us over, now they’re back to the immigrants.
If you’re not a white, British cisgendered christian man you’re the enemy and they’ll come for you eventually.
hudibrastic on
“Learn here why protecting women is far right extremism”
araed on
They created a perfect weapon, with zero accountability, and now they’re surprised that it’s being used to harm people they didn’t want it to?
I’m shocked, I tell you. Absolutely shocked. And surprised.
Anyways, maybe they should start looking at some accountability. It’s too late, but you never know…
Calelith on
No shit.
People seem to not care about women been raped or attacked when the guy doing it is white or famous.
Think last time I checked 3/4 women had been Sexual Assault snd most often by a family member or friend, if it was about ‘protect our women’ then they would be pushing for harsher punishments for those crimes and more women only areas and protections.
Its not and never has been about women and girls and is just a way to justify racism and bigotry, if you have legitimate concerns about immigration you don’t need to coop a real reason to express it.
_pierogii on
The hotels thing is so stupid. I know the far right gets wet about the idea of holding brown people in grubby tent cities, but cheaper-looking holding areas often end up more costly when all factors are included. They already worked out that converting old RAF bases and barracks would end up more expensive. Now imagine the government getting tied into bloated contracts to maintain a temporary and unpredictable infrastructure. It’s all about dehumanisation and optics.
Anyway, more to the point. Being an “activist” by only confronting men who happen to not be from your demographic should be met by intense cynicism. There is not one nation on this earth where women are more violent or sexually abusive towards men, very much including this one.
Correct_Drive_3817 on
What brought about the sudden need to campaign for women’s safety, for anyone to hijack? Government inactivity, or turning a blind eye to the rape and grooming of teenage girls up and down the country?
Like any just cause, there has to be a victim and a perpetrator. No one is saying that there was no concern for women’s safety on the streets before the migrant crisis, but anyone who believes there is no cause for alarm at the shocking rise in attacks on women and girls, or that it can be put down just to the men on the streets protesting, must be deluded. I refuse to jump on the bandwagon of labelling anyone who has an ounce of patriotism as right-wing politically; it’s simply nonsense.
You can see how so many people feel let down, and many of us are struggling to keep up with the ridiculous cost of living here, and are outraged at how much seems to be spent on housing new arrivals, while taxing everyone to the hilt and raiding pensions and inheritances. We used to have a future to look forward to and now it seems dashed.
The current government has caused this rift in the country by promising the earth and delivering just the muddy topsoil on illegal and legal migration, both of which are out of control. The culture of the men coming into the country is the problem, and deflecting the blame onto the people who get out onto the streets to bring this situation to an end is typical of left-wing radicals.
I’m sure those last few words will raise the hackles of anyone who is politically on the left, taking the term radical as a slur. Not intended in that way, as I am sure the head radical herself Angela Rayner didn’t mean scum when she said it over and over again,
Mr_Zeldion on
Everyone’s Hijacking everything for political gain. This isn’t new.
But what I do see though, are British mothers taking time off work to make signs out of things they have at home to fight for the safety of their children on their own streets. Whilst being met by paid and sponsored anti-protestors.
So yeah, they can try to push this narrative that the “far-right” don’t genuinely care for womens safety and deny that British women aren’t also supporting this cause, just like the turn their camera’s and microphones away from any non white “far-right” protester because it goes against their “neo-nazi” narrative.
When you see the gay influencers being told by trans people that they don’t belong at pride because they are voting Reform, or they voted for Trump you can’t deny that LGBT Pride is also hijacked by the “Far-left”
The left have been hijacking “moral” rights to push extreme idea’s and narratives for years but its fine because the left agree with what’s being pushed. Well we can’t act surprised when the right start to push their extreme views under the guise of “moral” rights too.
Swings and roundabouts if you ask me.
A white British male wanting to ban the burqa because he is against “women oppression” When the reality is he just hates Muslim’ is just as shocking to me as a Trans sex offender demanding their right to use certain spaces that align with how they identify in order to get closer to women in vulnerable situations.
This isn’t new and it’s always going to happen. However what we also witness is a world where people see a few examples from both sides and come to the conclusion that ALL those people are the same.
You see it by the left painting all people who share different opinions as racist, bigots, nazi’s homophobic etc regardless of whether or not they are.
You see it by the right painting people as podophiles, mentally ill, deluded, criminal etc regardless of whether or not they are.
Both sides equally as bad as the other, only difference is what side your on and your own personal perspective on the other.
MDFHASDIED on
Let’s face it… everyone does it. “Think of the women and children” “women and children first”… it’s not as if it’s a purely right wing thing.
CinciyiduHajimet on
How convenient to have those “statistics” quickly found it’s way in our feed. Do we have any statistics about the migrants and how they treat their women? No, we don’t know a single thing
TheAdequateKhali on
They also don’t care about immigrants – they’re just racist. Hence why they claim people who aren’t white is are immigrants.
Illigard on
There’s a very simple way of spotting these people. Did they ever vote for pro-women issues in the past, ones that weren’t bigotry? Furthermore, did they vote against women in the past?
The bigot who voted against women today, is not voting otherwise today because he suddenly cares.
spubbbba on
You see it all the time here.
Whenever an article comes up about misogyny in general this sub is dismissive or claims that “if only the media were nicer to young men they wouldn’t have these beliefs”. Oddly no other demographic demonised by the media gets this excuse when members of it do something wrong. When the story is just about an out group like Muslims or immigrants then the attitude is very different.
When there’s something about trying to improve the shockingly low conviction rate of rape then this sub is very concerned about the risk of innocents being punished, or the group as a whole being blamed. Plus keeping anonymity of those accused. Again oddly the same doesn’t apply to Muslims or immigrants when they are accused. Suddenly anonymity is thrown out the window and you can blame the entire group on the bad behaviour of a minority.
X2seraphim on
Isn’t this the same as the left hijacking pro Palestine.
plawwell on
These extremists need to be met with stats that shows their political group is more dangerous to women and kids than any others.
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Leading women’s rights groups have warned that the far right movement has “hijacked” the issue of women’s safety for political gain.
More than 100 organisations have written to prime minister Sir Keir Starmer to urge the government to stop far-right groups from “weaponising” violence against women and girls (VAWG) for a “racist, anti-migrant agenda”.
It comes after weeks of far-right protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers across the country, with many participants claiming to be there under the banner of “protecting” women and girls in their community.
Some very clearly have
You also have legitimate concerns being waved off because clearly the person is just a racist
So there’s 2 sides to every coin and neither should be ignored
Warning , Far left have hijacked children’s safety for censorship gain.
Struck a nerve did I?
“Protect our women and girls” (so that we can beat them instead).
Not surprised. A lot of the rioters had domestic abuse records themselves. But sure, they’re def standing for the wOmeN anD kIds!
It’s also a massive distraction. Fascists screaming about women and children is an easy deflection from the bread-and-butter issues.
Most these scum have a history of domestic abuse against women.
I mean yeah, if you want visceral uncritical support then ‘protect women and kids’ is a great lever to pull, it works amazingly well. Especially because if you oppose whatever the idea is then you are *not* protecting women and children, it’s stupid of course but it works.
And far left groups hijacked the debate to start with.
10 years of nothing done on migration or LGBT rights because any attempt at progress is scuttled by lunatics shouting down any other point of view.
So, society rallied and we got Trump. Well done activists. Thanks for that🤦♂️
The far right are the biggest threat to women in the country (and children, don’t make me post the list). Half of the guy arrested at the protests have previous for domestic abuse, more than I can count from the EDF etc. have been locked up for child abuse and one has even been done for people smuggling.
I mean… just look at them.
I don’t know if getting into an abandoned vehicle counts as “hijacking”.
I bet the far-right probably are using the issue to push an anti-migration agenda. But they didnt hijack the issue, they picked it up after it was abandoned by the political centre. Everyone now knows how the government effectively abandoned white, working class women to grooming gangs who targeted them because of their race and religion. Everyones aware that foreign born men are sometime four times more likely to sexually assault women and yet the government seems fine with large numbers of mostly men arriving illegally in the country and then vanishing.
For years the concern when these crimes were brought to light wasn’t ‘how do we stop this’, it was ‘racists will gain influence’. They ignored the plight of the victims and allowed the far-right to seize the narrative as defenders of those victims, because for the most part they actually were. For years Tommy Robinson was vilified for his claims on muslim grooming gangs, turns out he was 100% right. Unless the government focuses on this very real problem and less on arresting people who tweet the wrong thing then the far-right will actually become something to worry about.
https://far-rightcriminals.com/far-right-sexual-offences/
Didn’t LBC do an interview with some people at the Epping protests outside of these refugee hotels and one of the “concerned citizens” is a well known Neo-Nazi?
I’m trans.
Ya f-ing think!?
I can’t piss in peace because of the far right dog whistling us as monsters and perves while they’re free to r@pe and SA anyone they want with no repercussions.
They took their five minute detour to f- us over, now they’re back to the immigrants.
If you’re not a white, British cisgendered christian man you’re the enemy and they’ll come for you eventually.
“Learn here why protecting women is far right extremism”
They created a perfect weapon, with zero accountability, and now they’re surprised that it’s being used to harm people they didn’t want it to?
I’m shocked, I tell you. Absolutely shocked. And surprised.
Anyways, maybe they should start looking at some accountability. It’s too late, but you never know…
No shit.
People seem to not care about women been raped or attacked when the guy doing it is white or famous.
Think last time I checked 3/4 women had been Sexual Assault snd most often by a family member or friend, if it was about ‘protect our women’ then they would be pushing for harsher punishments for those crimes and more women only areas and protections.
Its not and never has been about women and girls and is just a way to justify racism and bigotry, if you have legitimate concerns about immigration you don’t need to coop a real reason to express it.
The hotels thing is so stupid. I know the far right gets wet about the idea of holding brown people in grubby tent cities, but cheaper-looking holding areas often end up more costly when all factors are included. They already worked out that converting old RAF bases and barracks would end up more expensive. Now imagine the government getting tied into bloated contracts to maintain a temporary and unpredictable infrastructure. It’s all about dehumanisation and optics.
Anyway, more to the point. Being an “activist” by only confronting men who happen to not be from your demographic should be met by intense cynicism. There is not one nation on this earth where women are more violent or sexually abusive towards men, very much including this one.
What brought about the sudden need to campaign for women’s safety, for anyone to hijack? Government inactivity, or turning a blind eye to the rape and grooming of teenage girls up and down the country?
Like any just cause, there has to be a victim and a perpetrator. No one is saying that there was no concern for women’s safety on the streets before the migrant crisis, but anyone who believes there is no cause for alarm at the shocking rise in attacks on women and girls, or that it can be put down just to the men on the streets protesting, must be deluded. I refuse to jump on the bandwagon of labelling anyone who has an ounce of patriotism as right-wing politically; it’s simply nonsense.
You can see how so many people feel let down, and many of us are struggling to keep up with the ridiculous cost of living here, and are outraged at how much seems to be spent on housing new arrivals, while taxing everyone to the hilt and raiding pensions and inheritances. We used to have a future to look forward to and now it seems dashed.
The current government has caused this rift in the country by promising the earth and delivering just the muddy topsoil on illegal and legal migration, both of which are out of control. The culture of the men coming into the country is the problem, and deflecting the blame onto the people who get out onto the streets to bring this situation to an end is typical of left-wing radicals.
I’m sure those last few words will raise the hackles of anyone who is politically on the left, taking the term radical as a slur. Not intended in that way, as I am sure the head radical herself Angela Rayner didn’t mean scum when she said it over and over again,
Everyone’s Hijacking everything for political gain. This isn’t new.
But what I do see though, are British mothers taking time off work to make signs out of things they have at home to fight for the safety of their children on their own streets. Whilst being met by paid and sponsored anti-protestors.
So yeah, they can try to push this narrative that the “far-right” don’t genuinely care for womens safety and deny that British women aren’t also supporting this cause, just like the turn their camera’s and microphones away from any non white “far-right” protester because it goes against their “neo-nazi” narrative.
When you see the gay influencers being told by trans people that they don’t belong at pride because they are voting Reform, or they voted for Trump you can’t deny that LGBT Pride is also hijacked by the “Far-left”
The left have been hijacking “moral” rights to push extreme idea’s and narratives for years but its fine because the left agree with what’s being pushed. Well we can’t act surprised when the right start to push their extreme views under the guise of “moral” rights too.
Swings and roundabouts if you ask me.
A white British male wanting to ban the burqa because he is against “women oppression” When the reality is he just hates Muslim’ is just as shocking to me as a Trans sex offender demanding their right to use certain spaces that align with how they identify in order to get closer to women in vulnerable situations.
This isn’t new and it’s always going to happen. However what we also witness is a world where people see a few examples from both sides and come to the conclusion that ALL those people are the same.
You see it by the left painting all people who share different opinions as racist, bigots, nazi’s homophobic etc regardless of whether or not they are.
You see it by the right painting people as podophiles, mentally ill, deluded, criminal etc regardless of whether or not they are.
Both sides equally as bad as the other, only difference is what side your on and your own personal perspective on the other.
Let’s face it… everyone does it. “Think of the women and children” “women and children first”… it’s not as if it’s a purely right wing thing.
How convenient to have those “statistics” quickly found it’s way in our feed. Do we have any statistics about the migrants and how they treat their women? No, we don’t know a single thing
They also don’t care about immigrants – they’re just racist. Hence why they claim people who aren’t white is are immigrants.
There’s a very simple way of spotting these people. Did they ever vote for pro-women issues in the past, ones that weren’t bigotry? Furthermore, did they vote against women in the past?
The bigot who voted against women today, is not voting otherwise today because he suddenly cares.
You see it all the time here.
Whenever an article comes up about misogyny in general this sub is dismissive or claims that “if only the media were nicer to young men they wouldn’t have these beliefs”. Oddly no other demographic demonised by the media gets this excuse when members of it do something wrong. When the story is just about an out group like Muslims or immigrants then the attitude is very different.
When there’s something about trying to improve the shockingly low conviction rate of rape then this sub is very concerned about the risk of innocents being punished, or the group as a whole being blamed. Plus keeping anonymity of those accused. Again oddly the same doesn’t apply to Muslims or immigrants when they are accused. Suddenly anonymity is thrown out the window and you can blame the entire group on the bad behaviour of a minority.
Isn’t this the same as the left hijacking pro Palestine.
These extremists need to be met with stats that shows their political group is more dangerous to women and kids than any others.