It's not just education. I worked in the NHS during the Labour years. There would be an awful lot of discussion about voting intentions. But if anybody had ever said that they voted Tory they would have been shunned and all chance of promotion shelved. If they'd admitted voting UKIP they would have been out of a job. It was accepted that there was a political orthodoxy and set of ideas which must be shared to get on and progress.
I sat in meetings which were nothing short of doublespeak. For example diabetes workshops which were specifically aimed at SE Asian people as they were more at risk, so in some ways fair enough. But the problem was that the SE workshops you could be on within days. If you weren't SE Asian then you could be waiting 8 weeks or more. This caused problems because we covered areas where there was a lot of deprivation and some people were very poorly educated and didn't understand how to manage their condition. They would think things like they just couldn't eat actual physical white sugar. So they'd stop drinking tea because they couldn't put sugar in it so they would drink full fat coke instead! They'd end up in hospital.
Anyway, the district nurses would complain about how long it took to get on the courses and how they were dealing with the resultant fall out. We'd be sitting in meetings with management going over and over and over how to shorten the delays. But nobody, nobody would suggest converting an SE Asian class to an open one. It was just verboten. Couldn't even be mentioned or considered. The whole thing was insane.
The taxis, CSE and other illegal activities are the same. Everybody knows it's happening, but apparently it's racist to even think it and you have to pretend it's not. But if you ask if it's been investigated and disproved, the answer is of course not, that would be racist. But if you ask how they can say it's not happening, the answer is 'Because our ideology tells us so'. And you just go round and round in circles with nothing being done and problems being ignored because to look at them would be racist. I know that if the police started spot checks on cabs in my area there would be outrage in certain groups that it was a racist action. And the council and police won't do it because of that. But as Rotherham shows, sometimes it's not racism, it's true.