Why nothing on the BBC about the grooming gangs?

I don't understand it either. Where is all the coverage? It's absolutely horrific.

EXACTLY

This is what we get for importing clan based misogynistic cultures to come and live in our poorest neighbourhoods. It's happening in dozens of towns and cities across the UK: grooming gangs, sectarian politics, fraud and corruption in local government.

No wonder the BBC and most Labour politicians pretend it's not happening. It completely upends their delusion that multiculturalism in Britain is a success.

I hadn't even realised this isn't the official enquiry - which apparently Baroness Anne Longfield will lead, over three years, with a budget of £65m.

This is Rupert Lowe with £600,000 raised through crowdfunding, sat in a room for two weeks.

If you in any way think that's about what's good for the victims, you are deluded.

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It would be nice if people listened to the survivors of sexual violence rather than telling them what they should and shouldn’t be doing.

I don't know much about Rupert Howe, but what will he gain from this?

Several of the survivors resigned from the official inquiry. They feel they are being heard in this one. It’s survivor led. Do you realise how callous you sound to many people?

I’d imagine it’s because it’s not so much an inquiry as a Rupert Lowe self promotion opportunity. No reputable media outlet with decent editorial guidelines would be reporting this as an inquiry because isn’t a statutory inquiry even if the people running it call it one.

And as for not materialising, the official inquiry has appointed a chair and is currently in the middle of the public consultation, which ends next month if you wish to do something useful. As is entirely proper for actual inquiries.

It would be really nice if people stopped using the victims of VAWG for their own gain. There’s an awful lot of it about at the moment.

Someone literally used the words “reaping what they sowed” re colonialism on another thread.

This makes me so angry. Don't tell the truth or it will whip up racial tension?? What those men did and are still doing is what's whipping up racial tension.

Have you read any of the testimonies of those tortured girls? Told they deserved it because they are 'White pig dogs/white whores' etc.

And do you honestly think that they targeted white British girls because they were more available to them - Asian Pakistani men - than Asian girls living in their community? Or perhaps you're saying British girls are suffering the consequences of their freedoms? Should we keep our young girls in the house more, lest they tempt the racist, torturing rapists?

If there was a white grooming gang (or more to the point an interconnected network of them, as here) specifically preying on young Muslim girls, which there very well might be, I simply don’t believe that people wouldn’t think that racism was involved. You can say what you like, I don’t believe it.

Do posters realise you are in effect making Rupert Lowe’s point for him?

Absolutely agree. The right of these girls to be heard is more important than politics. If the left won’t listen, what do they fucking expect?

What is dispiriting is the attitude of the perpetrators’ womenfolk. Accepting that their husbands/sons etc have “needs” and it doesn’t matter because the girls are “trash”.

From those that I met, they were in an impossible position. The children would come home intermittently, stay fo a few days, then go off with their ‘boyfriends’. The parents weren’t able to lock them up. The girls could refuse to come home ever so doors were kept open, even if all they did for the few days at home was sleep, cry and eat until they felt better.

The photos of the girls were in some hotels/guest houses, so they just avoided those areas and moved around the conurbation.

The degree of psychological damage is unfathomable in some of the youngsters I have seen.

Also, girls co-erced into recruiting others so that in some environments, the victims had to be separate to other vulnerable individuals due to the risk of recruitment. Its horrific.

I saw an advert for this the other day, the BBc asking what stories we want them to cover - send them something?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0z0y2z3mjo.amp

I have raised this to make my point that we can't assume that the Pakistani grooming gangs exist as part of some kind of Muslim war on white people.

They exist as part of the male war on women and girls.

@BishyBarnyBee that rape gang are so different from the ones investigated. One the two children involved were from one of the women two they were not trafficked all over the country by different groomers it was in one area one house none the less disgusting

But if you listened to the account of these survivors of a white grooming gang you would be equally appalled. If Reform quoted from the trial in the way they are about the Pakistani gangs, we would all be outraged. But they won't because they are only interested in the gangs that further their agenda.

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Well said.

I think it's very possible that institutional fear of being seen as racist allowed gangs to operate with impunity.

But I think this is the narrative being pushed - that they did it because of "hatred of young British girls" - just whips up racial tension and adds a meaning that may not be there.

Because actually, like all the other abusers, they chose the vulnerable victims they thought they could get away with. A significant number of men hate and despise women. Violence and abuse have been endemic in every layer of our society, and other societies. I don't understand it, I know not all men are like that, but lots, of all races and classes, are.

The focus on young British girls is likely to reflect the non-availability of young Asian girls who may be allowed far less freedom and spend less time out of the home than white

Many of the men frothing at the mouth about young British girls being abused by Pakistani men are quite happy to ignore the statistics about male violence against women and girls. A significant number of people arrested in last years riots - which were all about "protecting our girls" - had criminal records for domestic abuse.

This is what makes me quite cynical about the motives of those choosing to focus on one subset of abuse.