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Figure this one out. At a time when #MeToo became a rallying cry to protest male sexual violence, the nation of Great Britain was hard at work covering up an appalling scandal-- young girls were being groomed by Pakistani gangs. They were being gang raped and sex trafficked. And most of the British establishment, from the media to the government to the school system, turned a blind eye to the horrors.
British political analyst Matt Goodwin shines some light on the problem:
The blunt reality is that for much of the last twenty years nobody took these voices or the scandal seriously. Nobody wanted to do anything about it because it clashed with strengthening taboos around racism and, as I saw in Oxford, undermined the liberal progressive worldview which dominates the elite institutions.
It does not sound real. It certainly does not sound civilized. The following comes to us via Twitter:
Two 13 year old English girls drunk in the house without clothes with 7 Pakistani immigrants and who did the police arrest? The two 13 year old girls because they were drunk. UK is lost.
Goodwin has an explanation. The prevailing belief system, the dominant ideology sees minorities as virtuous and majorities as an oppressive class. The next step is to think that oppressed minorities are allowed to violate young girls, as a form of reparations:
One big reason why, even now, people struggle to talk about the grooming scandal is because it turns on its head the liberal progressive belief system which views all minorities as virtuous, the majority as oppressors and white graduate liberals, like those in Oxford, as the ‘saviours’ of those oppressed minorities.
The grooming scandal paints a very different picture of modern Britain —a place where members of a minority group oppress and exploit children from the majority, and where white liberals clearly have no interest in coming to save them.
Dare we also mention that manliness is dead in Britain. As is patriarchy. And that the moral duty that inheres in fatherhood has also been overcome. This is what a fatherless culture looks like. The worst thing that can happen is to be called racist. And if you say that the perpetrators are Pakistani, you are certainly racist:
From Rotherham to Telford, Oldham to Rochdale, Oxford to Peterborough, it has been the same story —social workers, councillors, teachers, politicians, and police ignoring or downplaying the scandal because of fears of being called ‘racist’, because they did not believe it, or because members of their community were implicated.
From one town to the next, the desire to not violate anti-racism taboos, to not be seen as politically correct and to conform to the elite consensus was routinely prioritised above ensuring the safety of children and, ultimately, upholding the law.
And this warped response has also been reflected in our national conversation and prevailing culture where one journalist after another, one report after another, one institution after another, has consistently sought to ignore, downplay, or simply reframe the scandal so that it fits with the worldview of the new elite.
The people who dominate the national conversation, in short, have consistently tried to push the scandal out of the public square, largely because it does not fit with their ideological worldview, or reimagine it so that it does.
As for patriarchy, consider this. Some fathers in Rotherham tracked down the men who had raped their daughters. They were arrested.
After all, the need to sustain the good name of Islam supersedes the requirement to prosecute crime and to protect British schoolgirls.
Consider the recent response of one Jess Phillips, the Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence against Women and Girls. Belonging to the Labour Party she does not want to launch a public inquiry because it might work to the advantage of the right.
To that, Elon Musk replied that Phillips should be in prison.
In fairness, the Tories rejected a request from the Oldham Council to hold a public inquiry into the issue. Still, former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did initiated inquiries and prosecutions.
And then there is the multicultural aspect. In Muslim cultures, the perpetrators of these atrocities insist, these British girls had it coming. They were impure, not virgins. They dressed provocatively. Thus, good Muslim men had the right to rape and sex traffic them.
Among the most fierce opponents of the grooming gangs is one Tommy Robinson. He is currently in prison for stirring up negative emotions. When Elon Musk suggested that he be immediately released, as a gesture to show a changed attitude, the British political elites, especially the Labour Party, told him to shut up.
The stories are gruesome and horrifying. Consider this from one Alex Philips:
Get ready to be horrified Charlene Downes was 14 when she was killed, having been repeatedly raped. Iyad Albattikhi and Mohammed Reveshi stood trial in 2008, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided there could be no case due to errors in evidence gathering by police
Prosecution said the men planned turning her into kebab meat to get rid of evidence She has never been found They walked free.
For the record the head of the Crown Prosecution Service in 2008 was no less than Keir Starmer, the current Labour Prime Minister. As for why this issue is now front and center in the British mind, one reason must be the widespread public repudiation of the wildly unpopular Labour government.
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