To tackle extremism, the BBC can STOP PLATFORMING IT for starters!

From Michael Gove's redefining of extremism to Melanie Phillips on BBC Question Time, extreme views keep getting mainstreamed.
Right, so Michael Gove, a man I’ve compared to the children’s puppet character Pob in the past, but who looks more and more like a melted candle with every passing day, wants to tackle extremism! Well he could start with his own party, he should start with his own party after 14 years of decimating public services, inflicting mass poverty on those with the least whilst enriching those with more than enough, introducing pernicious human rights abusing legislation, from Rwanda flights to crackdowns on the right to protest, there’s no shortage of options to choose from to justify adding the Conservative Party to a list of extremist organisations in my view.
Still, that’s never what Michael Gove is going for and in fact he’s managed to unite people from across the political spectrum, left to right, against him, because of his arbitrary, racist and highly selective choices for what he considers extremist, making a mockery of what he says he wants to do.
However if you really want to get to the bottom of extremism and deal with it meaningfully, then the biggest spreaders of extreme views are those that platform it, in our media, both in print and on screen and none proved the necessity of that better than the BBC did last night on Question Time.
Right, so Michael Gove, comedy gold on the dance floor, not so much in parliament, has unveiled a list of organisations that he considers extremist and it’s annoyed just about everyone. You’ve got civil rights groups kicking off over it, you’ve got Muslim community groups kicking off over it, you’ve got the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation kicking off over it, you’ve even got Priti Patel kicking off over it and she was the one who kicked off the Rwanda deportation business, so it very much looks like a Colombian marching powder induced piece of legislation, clearly not thought through with clear thought and sound mind at any rate.
The reason they’ve all kicked off, is because rather than measuring extremism by actions committed, Gove is instead changing to an ideology based approach. In other words what an organisation says it is about matters more than anything they actually do. Now this is inherently problematic because you’re going to ban people or organisations based on their thinking, rather than actions taken, potential criminality committed. It’s Minority Report stuff again, thought police and functionally just clamps down freedom of speech and expression again, something we’ve become accustomed to the Tories doing.
So who are the affected organisations now and going forward, well here’s an excerpt from the Guardian – for once just laying out the facts rather than spinning it:
‘The government stated that impartial officials will be conducting a rigorous assessment in the next few weeks to determine who falls under the auspices of this new definition. Organisations that will be evaluated include the far-right groups British National Socialist Movement and Patriotic Alternative, as well as the Muslim Association of Britain, Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend) and Cage.

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