The Sin Bin • Re: Is nowhere safe? Manchester
Cronus wrote:
I'm not offering one, it's the attitude that helped the abuse persist and ignored the victims that irks.
Though if I had to, it would simply be for a race/religion-blind response to reports of child abuse. Hopefully we're already there.
I would hope that this is an issue on which the right and the left could agree; where we tend not to agree however, is the language and rhetoric that tends to come from the right when this kind of filthy crime comes to light - it very quickly becomes an excuse for the kind of casual, dog whistle racism that fuels hate crime, and makes minority communities feel even more disenfranchised and alienated and by extension, less likely to engage with the police or social services. Practically a party political broadcast for the BNP.
FWIW - I'm a lefty snowflake - but I can agree without fear that a disproportionate amount of Pakistani men have been involved in this kind of case; when you look at the detail however, the evidence suggests that their motive is criminal and has nothing to do with religion; they are pimping these girls out to other criminals. There is also evidence to suggest that many of them had a belief that they would not be prosecuted by the police, because the police would be afraid of accusations of racism - which turned out to be true, and is damning. Thankfully, we seem to be past that now.
Statistics: Posted by bren2k — Thu Jun 01, 2017 9:56 pm