Women's Equality Party and Chris Kaba

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Tweets yesterday and today lamenting Kaba's death.

This was a violent criminal who was subject to a restraining order from his then-pregnant girlfriend.

Why are WEP tweeting in support of him?

https://x.com/WEP_UK/status/1848648576710107247

I just don't understand any more what the WEP are for.

I don't think it's about his history, I think it's about the police not acting with impunity.

Any progressive cause except actual feminism, is my impression.

They are defending a domestic abuser.

Why are the Women's Equality Party defending a domestic abuser?

Which of their Objectives does this come under?

www.womensequality.org.uk/objectives

We understand the message differently. In my opinion, they believe the verdict was incorrect and the police officer was guilty of a racist murder.

Firstly, I can see that WEP are trying to conflate the institutional racism and misogyny of the Met with an individual policing incident. More importantly, the individual police constable didn't get to act with impunity. He was subjected to the full force of the law. A jury then took 3 hours to find him Not Guilty.

They're saying that the Met is institutionally racist and another unarmed black man has been shot.

I don't believe a police officer has ever been found guilty of murder so the outcome was predictable.

But what’s the message got to do with the women’s equality party?

Do you grasp what the Women's Equality Party is? What its purpose and function and objectives are supposed to be?

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Beggars belief they weigh in on behalf of a violent domestic abuser.

Equal Parenting and Caregiving
Our goal is to achieve truly shared parenting and caregiving. This will help reduce the pay gap, permit more women to take on decision making positions, enable more men to take part in childcare, and allow more children to benefit from time with both their parents.
Equal Education
We can use our nurseries and schools as engine rooms for possibility, inspiring young women and men to achieve their full potential, free from gendered expectations about the life they should lead.
Equal Media Treatment
Equality for women requires real cultural change, and the media has to be at the centre of that. It has to change to ensure our girls and boys grow up comfortable in themselves and to make it clear equality is ‘normal’.
End Violence Against Women
Thanks to catcalls in the street, everyday sexism, the chance of being groped or molested on public transport, and domestic violence in the home, millions of women feel unsafe every day of their lives.

These are their supposed party Objectives.

How does supporting a violent domestic abuser help to 'end violence against women'?

WEP have been disappointing? Well colour me surprised

There's disappointing and there's 'supporting a violent male abuser'.

I see. You were under the impression that they only mentioned women. I had a quick glance at their Twitter account and they mention Black History Month, Windrush and Chris Kaba. They also mention other issues that don't specify women.

I've posted their party objectives upthread.

But yes, you're correct. They are no longer aligned with their ostensible purpose.

I've been thinking about Kaba's ex in all this. It must be horrible to see the violent man who beat her up celebrated as a hero.

You don't believe in intersectionality? That there aren't black women ie Windrush and Black History Month or the Kaba case?

I’m no great fan of the police, but this guy had an extensive rap sheet, had been involved in armed incidents and violence against others and was driving a car linked to firearms offences.

And whilst he didn’t have a firearm (not that the police could know either way) this time, he WAS in control of a 2 ton weapon which he had every opportunity to stop, but chose not to, and which he was using to actively endanger the policemen attempting to detain him.

I’m also bemused that the WEP would take this angle in regards to this particular violent criminal.

Yes. It beggars belief

The Women' Equality Party have totally lost the plot now.
Just what the actual fuckity fuck.

Chris Kaba was not a woman.

My sympathies are with the woman that he abused.

The Women’s Equality Party always makes me think of a scene from the first episode of the brilliant ‘Yes Minister.’ Wily civil servant Humphrey Appleby explained to his protege Bernard that when writing a policy paper, ‘You always dispose of the difficult bit in the title. It does less harm there.’

Dispose of the ‘Women’s’ bit in the party name & then forget about it. Given that WEP was tweeting in support of violent males practically from the start, I don’t believe they were ever aligned with their ostensible purpose.

So women’s equality has been achieved then? Time for them to branch out and campaign for other things?

A black woman is interested in discrimination and violence against black people. I wasn't aware that they were campaigning for him. They also mention lack of funding for councils but don't mention women.