https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13581155/Boy-12-referred-counter-extremist-Prevent-officers-school-declaring-two-genders-Im-gay-not-queer.html
And also having far right terrorist views apparently - he’s a kid ffs a gay Jewish kid being bullied - is this what the counter-extremism police are really supposed to be dealing with?
12 year old referred to Prevent fir saying ‘I’m gay not queer’ and ‘there’s only 2 genders’
SamW98 · 28/06/2024 22:52
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Prevent investigates boy, 12, for saying there 'are only two genders'
A 12-year-old schoolboy has been investigated by counter-extremism officers after he declared there 'are only two genders' and 'there's no such thing as non-binary'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13581155/Boy-12-referred-counter-extremist-Prevent-officers-school-declaring-two-genders-Im-gay-not-queer.html
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Garlicker · 30/06/2024 01:08
We don't know whether the bullies were also reported to Prevent.
Willsean · 30/06/2024 16:58
Kids who have been bullied can be prime candidates for being at risk of radicalisation and extremism.
It can obviously cause isolation, low self esteem, anger, sense of injustice, confusion and grievance.
Nobody's saying that bullying is right, but it's true that victims can change their behaviour, withdraw, turn to groups who appear to understand them and look for meaning elsewhere.
CliantheLang · 30/06/2024 20:18
You're gonna need some aspirin after that stretch.
Willsean · 30/06/2024 16:58
Kids who have been bullied can be prime candidates for being at risk of radicalisation and extremism.
It can obviously cause isolation, low self esteem, anger, sense of injustice, confusion and grievance.
Nobody's saying that bullying is right, but it's true that victims can change their behaviour, withdraw, turn to groups who appear to understand them and look for meaning elsewhere.
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duc748 · 02/07/2024 00:02
Schools really do so little about bullying these days.
Did they ever? When I went to school, bullying used to be primarily regarded as 'character-building', in my memory. And I'm not saying I went to a 'rough' or violent school, far from it.
Willsean · 30/06/2024 16:58
Kids who have been bullied can be prime candidates for being at risk of radicalisation and extremism.
It can obviously cause isolation, low self esteem, anger, sense of injustice, confusion and grievance.
Nobody's saying that bullying is right, but it's true that victims can change their behaviour, withdraw, turn to groups who appear to understand them and look for meaning elsewhere.
SapphireSeptember · 01/07/2024 22:54
@TicklishLemur I don't think saying you want a terrorist organisation wiped off the face of the map is extreme. I've said exactly the same thing about Hamas. After what they did to those women last year (and continue to do to the ones held captive,) I think they are utterly evil. I'm not Jewish, btw. I have all the sympathy in the world for the innocent Palestinians caught in the crossfire, but Hamas can do one.
Catsmere · 02/07/2024 07:35
And what has any of that to do with a boy stating the simple fact that there are two sexes, and that he doesn't want to be referred to by the slur "queer"? That's only terrorism in TRA land, where making oneself off-limits to anyone is considered a crime.
Willsean · 30/06/2024 16:58
Kids who have been bullied can be prime candidates for being at risk of radicalisation and extremism.
It can obviously cause isolation, low self esteem, anger, sense of injustice, confusion and grievance.
Nobody's saying that bullying is right, but it's true that victims can change their behaviour, withdraw, turn to groups who appear to understand them and look for meaning elsewhere.
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