It is characteristic of this crime that the perpetrators come from Pakistani Muslim backgrounds. The prevalence of 'rape genocide' as a strategy in the war between Pakistan and Bangladesh meant the behaviour was absorbed into the culture (if it wasn't there before), and was brought to the UK when people immigrated. Islamic teachings (perhaps Qur'an, Hadith or tradition) allow a deep disrespect of white women ('the daughters of the unbelievers are permitted to you') and the social behaviour of western women is so different from what their culture tells them to expect of women that they believe - and teach each other- that white women and girls 'are brought up to it by their parents' (ie having sex with randoms) and 'want it' because 'all white girls are players'. White women are thought to be only worthy to be abused and to be urinated on. Their country is the 'pure land', the UK is 'stupid country'. Within their communities there is a teaching that you should cover up your neighbours sin, in the same way you would hope he would cover your failings. See the work of Raja Miah (Recusant Nine) on YouTube.
The mistake we made (and continue to make) was thinking that people from other parts of the world would share our (Western, European, UK) worldview. They don't.
There are men in rape gangs who are not Pakistani Muslim, but they take advantage of the structure of abuse that the Pakistani Muslims establish. They're just as guilty, but not as organised.
I taught for years. I have known British Pakistani Muslim boys who would never be involved in anything like this - and others. The only time I heard of a girl being rescued (having been captured by a man and held prisoner) was when girls from her school contacted the man and said they'd have the police round there if he didn't release her. I asked if they weren't afraid - no, neither the girls nor the boys in their class were afraid, they were going to do the right thing. Remembering these people gives me hope.
I started teaching in 1993 and heard of this behaviour shortly afterwards. Police and Social Services knew but would not intervene. We have recently heard that government gave instructions they were not to do so.
Thousands of our children have been sacrificed to keep... what? Politicians in their jobs? Peace on the streets? Is it real peace if your twelve year olds are being raped by four or more men at a time? Or even by one man. It should never happen. We let the abusers think we didn't care, or that we were too weak to put a stop to it.
Thousands of families have been damaged - victims families, perpetrators families, the youth who have been conditioned to think this is acceptable behaviour and the victims who have been conditioned to accept that this is all they are worth.
Pitifully, there are still white British, often middle-class people, who don't believe this has happened and is happening still, who think it is all exaggerated, who can't imagine it, who think one girl 'making it up' means they all were.
This is, cumulatively, the biggest crime the UK has ever known. It is an ongoing act of terror. Politicians, police, local councils and social services are all potentially complicit, and perhaps should be subject to legal action.
Stop focusing on language to try to distract from the truth of the situation.