I do know they're likely to be British so fair point there... however how would one even say what I'm trying to say and be pc? Culture?
When you start to refer to not being racist as being PC, you’re not doing yourself any favours either. It also very much depends on what it is you are trying to say. Why would their race be at all relevant to your reaction to their arrest.
the abusers got away with it for so long partly because the police were afraid to act due to their (fuck me here we go) race, culture, ethnicity etc... and the fear of being deemed as racist.
I’m getting some “oh I’m not allowed to say anything without being called racist” vibes here. Laughable to suggest that using the words race, culture, ethnicity would be problematic.
The issues in Rotherham were complex. Fear of worsening racial tensions was an issue but actually the bigger issue was the victims not being taken seriously because they were “troubled” kids. That South Yorkshire police and the local council did not take child sexual exploitation seriously. The reports into both were scathing and the issues around a failure to act because of race were there but not considered to be substantial.
The only thought I have about the latest case is, here we go again. Not because of the ethnicity of the perpetrators but because we clearly still live in a world where child sexual exploitation is not being dealt with properly.
If your suggestion is, “here is another group of men from a certain background abusing children, I’m not surprised, it’s a cultural thing for them to do it” then that’s where it starts to creep in to racism. Because child sexual exploitation happens everywhere. But the English white guy who ran a massive global paedophile ring, jailed for his crimes in July of last year isn’t splashed across the Daily Mail.