After Trump’s convincing election victory final month, the PBS Information Hour is discovering its far-left ft once more. On Tuesday night time it handled a foolish left-wing research from a discredited lefty scaremongering outfit as a disturbing revelation about Trump-fueled misogyny, primarily based on some tasteless playground humor being unfold across the web for shock worth.
Anchor Amna Nawaz: After final month’s election, researchers documented a surprising rise in misogynistic rhetoric and assaults. Laura Barron-Lopez is right here now with a dialog about what’s behind that surge and the way specialists are combating it.
Thank goodness the “specialists” (i.e. censorious left-wing lecturers) are on the scene.
Laura Barron-Lopez: In only a 24-hour interval after Election Day, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue tracked a 4600 p.c enhance in mentions of the phrases, “Your physique, my selection” and “Get again within the kitchen” on the social media platform X….One put up by far-right activist Nick Fuentes has been seen practically 100 million instances. However the misogyny is not only on-line.
For extra on this development and efforts to combat it, I am joined by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a professor at American College and director of the varsity’s Polarization and Extremism Analysis and Innovation Lab, or PERIL….assist us unpack this enhance. What precisely did we see on this rise in misogynistic assaults on-line proper after the election?
Severely? A 4,600 p.c enhance? In a 24-hour interval proper after the election? And if the Left responds with large on-line outrage and protest because it cites the time period, is not that included within the “quantity of mentions”?
As at all times with the left, all of it got here all the way down to the problem of no-limit abortion.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss: ….what we noticed proper across the election, main as much as the election with a candidate who was a lady, a lady of coloration, after which the reproductive rights that have been additionally type of on the coronary heart of the election in some ways was a celebration in some ways by some younger males who have been seen — whose posts have been seen many, many thousands and thousands of instances, of this reclaiming of energy over girls and energy over girls’s our bodies.
Miller-Idriss at American College’s PERIL has beforehand linked going to the fitness center with far-right extremism, delivered two underwhelming anecdotes.
Miller-Idriss: Nicely, we have now seen numerous experiences and heard numerous experiences, together with in our lab, from colleges and universities, even from an elementary college, whose — a father or mother who reached out to me and mentioned her 10-year-old daughter had heard a boy chant at her, “Your physique, my selection.” I imply, it is unclear if he even is aware of what he is saying, however he is aware of that it is a type of slur and an insult to say that. We had a person strolling round a school campus in Texas holding up an indication that mentioned “Girls Are Property,” and we have now had different kinds of chants of “Return to the kitchen” and type of threats to girls of their our bodies on faculty campuses throughout the nation.
Had been playground insults and a few oddball holding an indication on a school campus really price a complete taxpayer-funded information phase? One wonders the place this concern for campus propriety was throughout the precise violence of the pro-Hamas rallies final spring.
The entire phase boiled down to 2 liberal prudes wringing their arms about insults on the net playground, as if it meant something in actual life.
Barron-Lopez: Does posting misogynistic content material, is {that a} predictor of future actions?
Miller-Idriss: It is not a direct predictor. You may’t type of draw a one-to-one correspondence. However we all know that the most important predictor of help for political violence proper now or of willingness to interact in it, or among the many prime three predictors, relying on the survey, is misogyny or hostile sexism….
Barron-Lopez: Does it drive actions resembling home violence in any respect?
Miller-Idriss: It does drive actions like home and intimate accomplice violence and in addition different types of stalking, harassment, rape threats, sexual assault. And people issues are additionally predictors and underpinners of mass violence….
Miller-Idriss had beforehand teamed up on a report with the discredited Southern Poverty Regulation Heart, which took the facet of radical Islam when it put Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who risked her life as a Muslim apostate, on a “hate record” as an “anti-Muslim extremist” for criticizing radical Islam’s brutal therapy of ladies.
SPLC continues to be attempting to scare aged liberals out of their cash:
Barron-Lopez: At the moment, PERIL, your group, together with the Southern Poverty Regulation Heart, launched a information: “Not Only a Joke: Understanding and Stopping Gender and Sexuality-Primarily based Bigotry.” It is meant to assist communities cope with the problems that we’re speaking about. What’s the function of this information and who do you hope it reaches?
(Issues usually are not going notably nicely for the phase on X.)
This hysteria-based phase was dropped at you partly by BNSF Railway.
A transcript is accessible, click on “Develop.”
PBS Information Hour
12/10/24
7:33:29 p.m. (ET)
Anchor Amna Nawaz: After final month’s election, researchers documented a surprising rise in misogynistic rhetoric and assaults. Laura Barron-Lopez is right here now with a dialog about what’s behind that surge and the way specialists are combating it.
Laura Barron-Lopez: In only a 24-hour interval after Election Day, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue tracked a 4600 p.c enhance in mentions of the phrases, “Your physique, my selection” and “Get again within the kitchen” on the social media platform X. One put up, by far-right activist Nick Fuentes has been seen practically 100 million instances. However the misogyny is not only on-line. For extra on this development and efforts to combat it, I am joined by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a professor at American College and director of the varsity’s Polarization and Extremism Analysis and Innovation Lab, or PERIL….First, assist us unpack this enhance. What precisely did we see on this rise in misogynistic assaults on-line proper after the election?
Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Nicely, first, we have now been seeing that rising development for most likely one thing like 18 months to 2 years over the past time period on many social media platforms. And what we noticed proper across the election, main as much as the election with a candidate who was a lady, a lady of coloration, after which the reproductive rights that have been additionally type of on the coronary heart of the election in some ways was a celebration in some ways by some younger males who have been seen — whose posts have been seen many, many thousands and thousands of instances of this reclaiming of energy over girls and energy over girls’s our bodies.
Laura Barron-Lopez: And, as I discussed, no less than a few of that very same rhetoric and exercise has since moved offline. How and the place has that manifested?
Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Now we have seen numerous experiences and heard numerous experiences, together with in our lab, from colleges and universities, even from an elementary college, whose — a father or mother who reached out to me and mentioned her 10-year-old daughter had heard a boy chant at her, “Your physique, my selection.” I imply, it is unclear if he even is aware of what he is saying, however he is aware of that it is a type of slur and an insult to say that. We had a person strolling round a school campus in Texas holding up an indication that mentioned “Girls Are Property,” and we have now had different kinds of chants of “Return to the kitchen” and type of threats to girls of their our bodies on faculty campuses throughout the nation.
Laura Barron-Lopez: Can you place this into the broader context of what we have now been seeing round misogyny and sexism lately, and what’s driving this development?
Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Sure. Nicely, we have now had — identical to we have now had normalization of different varieties of hateful rhetoric, anti-immigrant rhetoric, racist rhetoric, white supremacist rhetoric over the past 5 or 6 years, specifically, surges of that on-line, of conspiracy theories, we have now had anti-feminist rhetoric, and rhetoric blaming girls typically for a really actual and bonafide disaster being skilled by boys and males. And so it is one factor to say, sure, boys and males are extra remoted and lonely. They’re additionally the victims of bullying and violence by the hands of different males, a tradition that valorizes dominance and aggression as type of hallmarks of masculinity. However to take that disaster of males and masculinity and make it a disaster of misogyny, you really want the net world incubating the type of hateful rhetoric that we’re seeing.
Laura Barron-Lopez: Does posting misogynistic content material, is {that a} predictor of future actions?
Cynthia Miller-Idriss: It is not a direct predictor. You may’t type of draw a one-to-one correspondence. However we all know that the most important predictor of help for political violence proper now or of willingness to interact in it, or among the many prime three predictors, relying on the survey, is misogyny or hostile sexism. So beliefs in a hierarchy of superiority, beliefs within the inferiority of ladies drive help for political violence. And we additionally know that different varieties of hateful rhetoric produce surges in offline violence.
Laura Barron-Lopez: Does it drive actions resembling home violence in any respect?
Cynthia Miller-Idriss: It does. It does drive actions like home and intimate accomplice violence and in addition different types of stalking, harassment, rape threats, sexual assault. And people issues are additionally predictors and underpinners of mass violence. So after we see nearly each terrorist actor within the U.S. and numerous college shooters had prior histories of harassment, stalking, rape threats, sexual assault, and worse, so you’ve got these varieties of issues which are crimson flags and warning indicators and are sometimes ignored.
Laura Barron-Lopez: At the moment, PERIL, your group, together with the Southern Poverty Regulation Heart, launched a information: “Not Only a Joke: Understanding and Stopping Gender and Sexuality-Primarily based Bigotry.” It is meant to assist communities cope with the problems that we’re speaking about. What’s the function of this information and who do you hope it reaches?
Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Nicely, over the past two years, we have now gotten rising requests from dad and mom, from lecturers, from psychological well being counselors, religion leaders, and others for assist with misogyny and different types of hate which are occurring amongst boys, specifically, center and highschool boys. And we simply received one other request from a faculty this week attempting to — what can we do? And so we’ll go in and provide coaching. However we lastly realized we want a information. And so the information is — lays out among the definitions. What are boys seeing on-line? What are among the crimson flags and warning indicators? How are ladies uncovered to a few of this content material additionally via what’s referred to as tradwife content material and concepts about what it’s to be a person or a lady in society? And the way are they being manipulated, typically by dangerous actors on-line who’re attempting to get them to pay for subscriptions to issues and manipulate them for their very own revenue?
Laura Barron-Lopez: What are the highest suggestions that you simply’re making on this information to oldsters, but in addition lecturers and others who work together with people who find themselves prone to this content material?
Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Sure. I feel the primary advice is take it critically. And that is why we referred to as the information “Not Only a Joke,” as a result of so typically it is dismissed as locker room speak or as only a joke, actually, and it could not imply something, it is not severe. And one of many issues we actually emphasize is that taking it critically, attending to the harms that come from issues like, “Go make me a sandwich” or “Get again within the kitchen,” or simply jokey feedback that really type of categorical a way of entitlement to women and girls’s labor, servitude, the entitlement to their our bodies, these are dangerous. They’re dangerous to everybody within the communitynd so taking it critically and never reacting with disgrace, as a result of that may drive younger individuals additional on-line, however with curiosity about why they discover these sorts of statements enticing is a very necessary step.
Laura Barron-Lopez: Cynthia Miller-Idriss, thanks on your time.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Thanks for having me.
