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For those unfamiliar with the general situation, it's come to light in the past few years that in Rotherham, and at least nine other cities in the UK, there have been huge organized rape and pedophilia rings, pretty all run by Pakistani immigrants, which were actively covered up by the local governments due to the ethnicity of the perpetrators for fear of 'giving oxygen to racism'. This went on from around 1997 (and possibly earlier) right up through 2012 when the Times published an article on the subject. The extent of police involvement and coverups was relatively unknown until recently, however. ugh its Troika fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Feb 25, 2016 07:06
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Lyesh posted:The BBC article mentions "race relations" in an aside, but doesn't give any evidence for it or any further impression that this is anything other than a case of awful people paying incompetent/corrupt cops to look the other way. The other article is better about this but got shovelled under a paywall 30 seconds after I posted the thread  Wikipedia has some notes about the whole racism thing in their nest of articles on the subject (typical of wikipedia, it split each child rape gang up by city instead of having an easy central article).
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Feb 25, 2016 19:14
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I updated the OP with this, which at least in Rotherham's specific case has a couple of councilors (which as far as I can tell are like a city council in UK cities) admit to the covering up racism angle.
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Feb 25, 2016 23:51
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Lyesh posted:That's quite possibly because "we didn't want to look racist" beats the poo poo out of "those dudes were paying us to keep quiet" Almost everyone involved in this series of pedophilia rings is Pakistani. How could their ethnicity not be relevant?
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Feb 26, 2016 18:46
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When a woman claims a purse snatcher is a black man, should the police haul in 5 people of different ethnicities just to make things look less racist for the lineup? No, instead they haul in 5 black guys. This is the same principle-- when almost all of the pedophile gang activity in the area is organized and run by Pakistanis, the cops definitely should be keeping a closer eye on the Pakistani community. It sucks for the larger innocent portion of that community, yes, but as forums poster Thug Lessons pointed out, there honestly is an ethnic divide and it would be sloppy to ignore it.
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Feb 26, 2016 19:18
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Thug Lessons posted:I think this is bit disingenuous. I would not say "most people don't care about trafficked girls" but more like the opposite, that there's a culture of moral panic over pedophilia. Moral panic implies that the thing being paniced about either doesn't exist, or isn't as big a deal as some think. In this case, there actually are huge gangs of pedophiles in at least ten different cities around the UK, which operated with, at best, indifference from the police and authorities, and at worst, with active support and participation.
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Feb 26, 2016 19:25
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I'm sure the pedophiles are happy that you're here to cover for them, Sedanchair. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 26, 2016 22:28
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