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...single parallel, no matter how valid?
The crucial difference is that you want to look into why they were too scared to act, assuming they were both too scared to act and prejudging the sole reason to be a massive leftist conspiracy.
I would rather not prejudge everything here, take into consideration the reasons why the police and the local authority were, at best, negligent and repeatedly so for over a decade.
I imagine just as bigger reason is that the police, and probably to a lesser extent the LAs, thought these people weren't worth helping, by and large, and that it was a can of worms they'd rather not touch as it wasn't 'real people' being affected. More likely the Untermenschen people, largely on the right, are more than happy to write off and at best demonise.
Along with the diversity nuts and the privilege checkers there's also a massive, massive responsibility from the people who see people in far-flung provincial towns from a **** home as some sort of Dalit underclass beyond contempt.
Oh, and it's not a conspiracy. It's worse than that. It's a lazy consensus.
You want to find any reason to explain these things other than race and its attendant complications.
Occam's Razor, old chap. Useful thing.
And yes, I agree that Occam's Razor is a perfectly valid argument but I'm also saying it's more likely than an elaborate leftist conspiracy that the police just view these people as beneath contempt and that's probably the biggest factor here.
In short, we both have simplistic arguments based on prejudices we hold, it's just I would like it to be dealt with in a more wide ranging way as that's surely the best way to get to the heart of the problem and subsequently deal with it.
Looking at the people in power I admit that your favoured route is infinitely more likely to be the one they go with, it's just that it's also infinitely less likely to deal with the problem for the reasons outlined in the posts above.
that bears no resemblance to what the left originally stood for.
Once the working class was finished as a political force in the 80s, much of what remained of the left rallied around things like multiculturalism, which is a profoundly un-socialist concept because it divides rather than unites people. What it does offer, though, is a sense of authority for those who task themselves to enforce it, which is why it has infused the whole establishment.
This may or may not be what Jorge has been trying to say, but I think it's what he ought to be saying to distance himself from the people who have brought us to this point.
How can a policeman say that a 12 year old being gang-raped was consenting, and arrest her for being drunk? Did I even read that? Did the newspaper make it up? I find it all too horrifying to contemplate, but just blaming it all on the left seems a bit too easy imo.
Look at Gove's Trojan Horse affair, and the chapter in his Farenheit 7/7 book, or May's stance on deportation for instance. Not to mention the recent limitations on Visas from countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh.
I think the press stuff goes more or less without the need for any examples.
And it really, really would have no bearing on the negligence of a police officer as they arent the most delicate or PC - if you forgive the pun - of flowers anyway.
is seriously undermined when spout utter ****e like that