http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/rotherham-child- abuse-scandal-apologists-misogyny-and-double-standards-96924 97.html
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I need a little lie down now.
However, in lefty circles, you're only allowed to state self-evident truths on issues such as this if you're the right (ie non-white) colour.
When it happened in Belgium it brought the government down. Surely this should be the perfect opportunity to bury the leftist nonsense for a generation?
Equally, the sad truth is that these girls are simply seen as disposable by most of society even now, so there is no groundswell of public outrage because the victims were from a class with no voice and no ability to organise.
What is already happening is that the media and governmental institutions - led by the Beeb, of course - are paying brief lip service to the race issue and swiftly moving on to the institutional failures which, while outrageous, are merely symptomatic of the wider problems associated with the political culture. The local scapegoats will be made examples of in Rotherham, but nothing will fundamentally change.
We should publicly flog Owen Jones for this.
about class, misogyny and the failings of public officials, but to suggest it's about race is to miss the real point. The whataboutism going on is disgusting. 'Most sex offenders are white.' So what? "What about the Catholic Church?" What about it? "What about Jimmy Savile et al?" What about them?
Anything to avoid the real, dirty issues at the heart of this: namely that the perpetrators were from a repellent culture that regards girls and women as second class and white girls as barely even human; that the race and religion of the perpetrators made it politically expedient to cover up their crimes; and that the race and class of the victims made it easy to cynically ignore their plight and even to threaten those who dared to raise their voices. And ultimately, that this culture is a direct result of a hyper-sensitivity to any racial issue that has made it impossible to state any uncomfortable truth about a minority ethnic group.
Saying it's a "perfect opportunity to bury the leftist nonsense" when it's clearly a failing of society is just crass imo.
The famously not at all "leftist" South Yorkshire police, the same people who were instrumental in strongarming through the miners strike and covering up the political meddling in the Hillsborough tragedy are just as complicit as the pisspoor local authorities in this.
from the left's promulgation of a pro-multicultural and - by default - anti-white agenda? The police know very well that any attempt to investigate a situation that runs on racial lines will see them accused of racism like a f**king shot. They know that that easy accusation sticks like **** to a blanket and can destroy a career. So they shy away from it. And girls carry on being raped.
The left needs to face up to its responsibility here. Until it does, every bit of hand-wringing is just crocodile tears.
...like they were in Rochdale.
The nub of the problem was, and very much still is, the refusal of the police to take these cases to the CPS