Posted on 01/04/2025 6:14:15 AM PST by MtnClimber
What do you do when the police, the politicians, and the press conspire to cover up atrocities?
A challenge of describing Britain’s grooming gang scandal for an international audience is convincing the reader that it really happened and is not simply the product of a morbid fantasy.
This is not just because the crimes at its heart—those crimes being the rape and torture of young girls—are so appalling. They are, of course, but appalling crimes happen everywhere, becoming no less evil for their pervasiveness. Nor is it not just because the crimes took place on such a vast scale. In Rotherham alone, in South Yorkshire, there might have been 1,500 victims. It is also because the authorities—police officers, social workers and politicians—failed so miserably and wickedly to prevent them.
In Rotherham, and Rochdale, and Telford, and many, many other places, evil men raped vulnerable girls with impunity while the officials looked the other way (and, in some cases, actively helped). How could this have happened?
It is partly because the perpetrators were disproportionately of migrant heritage. A striking number of them were ethnically Pakistani. Most—though not all—of their victims were white girls, which, judging by the vicious comments that have been reported, had a lot to do with anti-white racism. “All white girls are good for is sex,” one rapist reportedly told his victim, “They are just slags.”
Local authorities were uncomfortable about digging into claims of young girls being raped on the grounds of political correctness. In Telford, for example, according to an independent report, authorities feared “complaints of racism”.
Political correctness also dampened broader interest. A 2004 documentary, Edge of the City, was pulled by the broadcaster Channel 4 amid fears that it could “inflame racial tensions”. Ann Cryer and Sarah Champion, Labour MPs, were widely condemned for emphasizing the role of Pakistani men in the gangs. This contributed to what I have called “a conspiracy of murmuring”. The phenomenon was gradually acknowledged—but in the barest possible terms. Instead of being buried, it was simply filed away.
Yet political correctness was not the only contributing factor. Indeed, the basest forms of classism and misogyny seem to have motivated police indifference. The victims, according to one witness in Rotherham, were seen as “undesirables”—teens from care homes or otherwise troubled backgrounds. “Police weren’t arsed with us, really,” said one victim from Rochdale, “They don’t give a f--- when you’re not from a wealthy [home].”
Thus, teenage girls faced consistent victim-blaming, with one of them even being arrested on charges of being “drunk and disorderly” after neighbors had heard her screams, and another being dismissed from a police station right into the arms of rapists. News outlets also demonstrated a bizarre willingness to ignore the true nature of grooming and rape. When Azhar Ali Mehmood, 26, burned Lucy Lowe, 16, to death, the BBC described him as her “boyfriend”.
Beyond all this, there was the grotesque, though by no means uncommon, impulse towards prioritizing the interests of institutions above the interests of people. In one memorably sinister email, a council worker in Oldham announced that they had fobbed off the concerns of a journalist who had been looking into the subject of grooming gangs before announcing, “PS. In case you didn’t know: We’ve also won Best City at Northwest in Bloom again today.” Great.
Slowly, the atrocities began to come to light. It is important to be clear that in an ocean of indifference, there were people who did a lot to make this happen, like the whistleblowers Maggie Oliver and Jayne Senior, the journalists Andrew Norfolk and Charlie Peters, and the victims who had the astonishing courage to speak of what they had experienced.
But the scale of the response simply did not match up to the scale of the atrocities. Some of the rapists are already being released. Disgraced officials found cozy jobs elsewhere. No police officers faced serious consequences. Chillingly, files and laptops containing important evidence were stolen. The state avoided accountability while a cultural establishment that emphasized egalitarian and minoritarian narratives avoided the subject. When posts about the grooming gangs scandal went viral on X this week, there was widespread shock. People outside the UK hadn’t even heard about it—and many people within the UK hadn’t grasped its implications.
It is about time that there was a cultural and institutional reckoning. Of course, it is important to be clear that such crimes could still be happening today. It is important to be clear that such crimes can be, and have been, carried out by white people as well (and not for the sake of political correctness but to stop it happening).
Yet if Britain’s state and cultural institutions are allowed to forget what happened in Rotherham, and Rochdale, and Telford, and Oxford, and Bristol, and so many other places, there will not be meaningful attempts to tear off the ideological and institutional blinkers that have blinded them to atrocities in the past and could blind them to atrocities in the future.
I expect that this is attitude coming to the USA if Trump cannot turn things around.
250,000 underaged girls raped, brutalized, and trafficked.
The police called them whores when they sought help, and arrested their fathers trying to help them.
And protected the rape gangs.
Who were foreigners brought in by the government against the will of the people.
Different religion, different culture, different language, different skin color.
The government has abandoned the very reason for its existence.
Why a single member of the Labour government is still alive, instead of hanging disemboweled from a tree is a mystery.
This is enough to justify a literal nuclear first strike on Pakistan.
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We have known this for years, that this is systemic racism and misogyny.The only reason it is slowly coming to light is the mainstream press is retarded with PC and will not accurately report against their narrative.
Fixed it.
We have the 2A, which Europe does not. But we have more than just that.
We have elected county sheriffs. Most of them are good guys, answerable to the voters they live among. I don’t think the UK has anything like that. Their sheriffs are ceremonial officials only.
But what about elsewhere in the US?
Just something for the Islamists to consider.
That is what happens to a country when from 1914-1945 it loses forever its genetic best and the remnant culture devolves into neo pagan, amoral, hedonistic decadence.
In my neck of the woods, the people they’d fear the most are the ones with guns and backhoes.
Europeans in general no longer defend their women and children.
Their laws permit conquest.
White males are now something like 8% of world population.
Inbred lower IQs and force feeding Marriage with such is lowering IQs with abandon. Enshrining larger dicks as preferable makes for an ensurfing of people’s.
Peoples
Sorry. My iPad is nearly kaput
If it were upper class girls being raped, they might have done something about it.
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“could still be happening today”
SMH. Could?
The media were a big part of the problem, passing along that the grooming gangs were made up of Whites:
And good for Elon Musk for bringing this to light again:
I only disagree with Musk that those who did this and those who allowed it and covered it up shouldn't be jailed, they should be hanged.
There will be no reckoning. The elite hate the working class in Britain and in the USA, but there are huge cultural differences between us and the British. Democracy still works here for one thing while it is on its last legs in the UK and the class distinctions are nowhere near as ingrained here likely due to the fact their has always been more social mobility here.
It is ironic that the political party that claims to champion the working class in Britain is the very one that unleashed mass Asian immigration on the country and now there is no going back. Britain has failed to assimilate its Muslim immigrants and merely managed to imbue them with Britains worst characteristic - a deep seated xenophobic racism hardly limited to people of color. I mean they hate the Irish and Poles and Spanish too.
The only real question in my mind is was this a mistake on the part of the socialist Labour Party or part of the plan. Honestly I think they like the working class cowed, dependent and in a constant state of trauma.
I can not type what needs to be said ... I hope that the people of UK do what needs to be done.
Never forget that the Bush league neoCON “conservative” scum have touted “diversity” as our strength for decades. They hate you just as much as the left does.
There will never be a reckoning. Not in Brit. Even the BBC refuses to clean house of obvious pedos. Just like the Epstein list won’t come out.
Nigel Farage just lost his movement when he just said he doesn’t want any part of Tommy Robinson.
You don’t have to love him, but its not the time to attack him.
When the labour marxists and globalists collapse, the UK will be absolutely leaderless.
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