The victims in Rotherham were not all white, many were Mipuri women who like the white girls were generally WC with vulnerabilities and regarded as disposable by the gangs. They have written and spoken about their own experiences and the added difficulties they have accessing support but largely been ignored by people only interested in the race of that particular gang’s abusers.
I have no time for La Toynbee’s particular brand of smug “do as I say, luxury beliefs” brand of MC liberalism but its just as ridiculous to claim that this is specifically a Mipuri Pakistani problem and I have zero time for the opportunists from the other side.
The abuse of children and trafficking of young women by gangs isn’t just a crime of sexual abuse its also organised crime. Organised crime usually does have a cultural/family group at core, be they North London Albanian gangs, Liverpool/Glasgow sectarian based gangs, the old Yardies in South London, the East End families like the Krays or the Italian Mafia.
Most of the convictions from grooming gangs have been white, in Rotherham they were Mipuri Pakistani groups, others have been of different ethnic origins.
The culture is relevant to organised crime as it dictates how specific gangs recruit and control members, the groups they link up with and sometimes the areas of “business”. It also often dictates tactics they can use to suppress the legal and welfare systems.
So the culture of the Rotherham gangs is relevant but mainly to the Rotherham gangs. The culture of East London white gangs is also relevant to how they operate. Studying the culture of how such gangs operate is relevant but has rarely translated into reductions in gang crime. Perhaps it would be better to look hard at the professional classes who in each case have failed the victims.
I would like to see the politicians, offices of the law and social services who dismissed the girls and turned a blind eye prosecuted. I’d like to see the same happen to those involved in ignoring victims of other gangs because the common feature across them is classism, not only race - largely the professional classes tasked with the protection of these girls just saw them as poor, unimportant and disposable.
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