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Talking about Asian grooming gangs: some history and a few realities - Jo Phoenix

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IwantToRetire · 10/08/2024 01:16

I'm not going to quote any part of this but thought some would find it interesting as Jo Phoenix describes the political context at the time different of different child sexual abuse scandals, that the media chose to report in different ways.

And looks at how feminist campaigning has had some sucess, over the decades, in terms of how exploited women and children are (meant) to be dealt with by authorities (police, social workers, etc.).

https://jophoenix.substack.com/p/talking-about-asian-grooming-gangs

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Freysimo · 10/08/2024 07:47

Why do you say "Asian"? Weren't the British grooming gangs of Pakistani origin?

Marylou62 · 10/08/2024 07:36

Thank you for this article.

WarriorN · 10/08/2024 07:23

I found this line poignant

To hold up the victims of Asian grooming gangs as somehow more offended against does a tremendous disservice to all the other young women who are raped, beaten and exploited by white men.

Jo herself was a victim in the states as a child wasn't she?

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/08/2024 07:03

That's a very good article. Thanks for linking to it.

unlimiteddilutingjuice · 10/08/2024 06:54

That's so interesting and sad Harry
I remember, years ago, reading a book about a bunch of working class kids "Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew"
In passing the author noted that the nickname for "girls who sleep with Asians" was "Tony White Meat" and then said something like "These kids can be racist".
I remember thinking "That's a bit odd. Why "meat?""
Then years later hearing about the Rotherham scandal and thinking "Aha that's what that was"

HarrytheHobbit · 10/08/2024 06:41

In the old days of Internet dial up I read a report that someone had compiled on a grooming gang in one Northern town. This man was so frustrated because noone took ang notice of him, the council, police, social stretching, noone, despite masses of evidence. He had put it online in the desperate hope that someone in authority would read it and act on it. We all know how that panned out.