The Government's hate crime spending

Millions of taxpayer funds have been put into charities that endorse Humza Yousaf-style thinking

This week, Rishi Sunak condemned Scotland’s new hate crime laws, and said that people should not be criminalised “for stating simple facts on biology”.

As usual with this Government, look into its funding and you will see that the Conservatives are saying one thing - and paying for the other.

To discover this, one need only go for a trawl of the Charity Commission for England and Wales. I’ll give a few examples to illustrate what I mean.

First is Protection Approaches, describing itself as “A HUMAN RIGHTS CHARITY WORKING TO TACKLE ALL FORMS OF IDENTITY-BASED VIOLENCE”.

I only discovered its existence after TfL advertised an “Active Bystander” course conducted by the charity. Out of journalistic curiosity, I attended and wrote about it here:

Protection Approaches undoubtedly pushes the ideologies that have seen JK Rowling being hounded in Scotland for stating biological reality.

For instance, in its 2022 paper Queering atrocity prevention, it uses terminology such as “cis-heteronormative”, and recommends that States consider: “developing, adopting and implementing an inclusive, intersectional national strategy of atrocity prevention”.

Having attended its active bystander course, I’m not sure Protection Approaches or charities like it make the slightest bit of difference to community relations (which, in fact, seem to be endlessly deteriorating).

In fact, they emphasise our differences and alienate many people by calling them terms borrowed from the ultra-left academic lexicon, like “cisgender”. They actually “other” people - “view or treat (a person or group of people) as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself” - more than the cis-heteronormative wrong’ns their work is designed to rehabilitate.

Taxpayers may be interested to know that the Department of Levelling Up gave Protection Approaches £479,435 in funding for the year ended 30 November 2022.

It also receives £17,654 from the Mayor of London.

And here’s its total income from government grants up to 2022:

Since 2018, that’s a total of £854,260.

Another hate crime charity is Stop Hate UK. Its website reads:

The materials on its website are also at odds to this “Conservative” government’s messaging on hate crime laws/ gender ideology.

Take for example Stop Hate UK’s glossary of terms on its website, including:

Acephobia: Hatred, discrimination or prejudice against people who identify as asexual or perceived to be asexual.

Intersectionality: The interconnected nature of social categorisations of a person such as race, class, and gender, combining to create different modes of discrimination and privilege.

Micro-Inequities: Subtle, often unconscious, messages that devalue and discourage people. Individuals are overlooked, singled out or ignored. Can be based on characteristics such as race, gender, ability, etc. Conveyed through facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice, choice of words.

Non binary: Term used to describe people who feel their gender cannot be defined within the margins of gender binary. It can mean different things to different people. Some non- binary people think of it as experiencing both masculine and feminine aspects of gender, whilst some think of it as being outside of gender altogether, and not identifying with anything masculine or feminine. It is also of an umbrella term because it includes things like being ‘gender fluid’ which is where you feel that your gender is constantly changing; some days, a person may feel more masculine, feminine, or neither.

Pronouns: She/her or he/him. Non-binary people may choose one of these pronouns, but may prefer a gender-neutral pronoun such as they/them. Some people use more than one set of pronouns e.g. she/her/they/them. If you are unsure about someone’s pronoun, ask them. You may want to share your pronouns as well.

More here

It also includes “gender identity” in its definition of hate crime:

Hate Crime: A Hate Crime is any criminal behaviour that is motivated by hostility towards a victim’s race, religion/faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or gender. Any crime has the potential to be a Hate Crime including: verbal abuse, physical assault, harassment, bullying, damage to property, intimidation, etc.

This opens the door to the idea that women who are critical of gender identity - the idea that you can “identify” as a woman to get into women’s spaces - are guilty of a “crime”, including arguments that it’s not a good idea for a biological male to go into a women’s refuge or prison.

Stop Hate UK isn’t short of taxpayer money. According to its profile on the Charity Commission, its “Total income includes £195,454 from 19 government grant(s)” for the financial year ending 31 March 2023:

Having had a nose on its Trustees' Report and Unaudited Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2023, I wasn’t able to decipher where the grants came from (for instance, councils versus a central government departments). Nonetheless, it’s a decent chunk of taxpayer funding.

forum⁺

Yesterday I posted another example of taxpayer funding on hate crime charities.

forum⁺ has received £627,710 in government grants since 2019. Camden and Islington Council are two of its main funders, spending £252,015 (2022-2023).

“Not another one!”

It’s also worth adding that last year Sadiq Khan announced a further £250,000 to tackle hate crime.

A press release about the funding reads:

“The Mayor’s £3m Shared Endeavour Fund equips grassroots organisations to harness the power of education and facilitate dialogue between young people through interactive workshops and projects designed to challenge hatred in all its forms. Since 2020 more than 90,000 Londoners have been supported across more than 70 projects, with a further 23 projects being delivered this financial year in which a further 50,000 will participate.”  

Given the huge amounts being spent on tackling hate crime, it’s interesting that hate crime always seems to be on the rise - increasing by a record 11 percent last year

Often it’s the people spending hundreds of thousands on tackling hate crime who tell us that it’s indefinitely worsening.

What are these charities doing, in that case? What have they actually achieved?

It’s hardly a great endorsement that their proliferation correlates with more vitriol on the streets…

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