Summary

Social media influencers are fuelling a rise in misogyny and sexism in the UK’s classrooms, according to teachers.

More than 5,800 teachers were polled… and nearly three in five (59%) said they believe social media use has contributed to a deterioration in pupils’ behaviour.

One teacher said she’d had 10-year-old boys “refuse to speak to [her]…because [she is] a woman”. Another said “the Andrew Tate phenomena had a huge impact on how [pupils] interacted with females and males they did not see as ‘masculine’”.

“There is an urgent need for concerted action… to safeguard all children and young people from the dangerous influence of far-right populists and extremists.”

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    It’s a problem with human psychology where we can’t accept a modest approach to anything.

    This is nonsense, the rightwing has clearly evolved this way but provide evidence the leftwing has or stop repeating this narrative of “both sides”.

    Y’all will “both sides” everything right up until a conservative yells a slur at you and kicks you out the door as you get deported to a brutal prison in an authoritarian country because conservatives decided you weren’t worthy of basic human rights.

    Then again maybe you will still sit in your cell shaking your head saying to yourself “damn, both sides got so extreme” .

    edit how about you provide some evidence instead of just downvoting like an intellectual coward?

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      4 hours ago

      You. You call your own allies intellectual cowards. You’re part of the reason the left drives it’s own support away.

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        3 hours ago

        The only people driving people away right now are centrists… which is why those of us on the left are so worried.