This is whitewashing to an extent. The programme is careful to mention the offenders ethnicity enough times yet makes not a single bit of commentary about the political policies which have led to this situation.
It all makes it feel very hollow for what should be a victory for these girls and the wider white working class who have and continue to be neglected and ignored by the wider middle class centric society. This has been going on for decades and not just Rotherham, Rochdale, Oldham etc but virtually every area within the North of England with a sizeable Pakistani Muslim population and some in the South such as Luton. It was happening when I was at school in a deprived Northern city which isn't publicly known for Pakistani street gang abuse. I've tried telling people for years but was dismissed as a racist and a bigot and a liar by people who mainly if not exclusively were not from Northern working class backgrounds...it didn't suit their politics to believe me then.
Now the rest of society has been forced to accept the grim reality of what has happened the very people who helped in protraying it as an EDL conspiracy theory want to create their own analysis of it instead of simply accepting the analysis of the people who have actually lived it.
Intrestingly enough this analysis is devoid of cultural commentary and instead attempts to lay blame at 'classist' and 'sexist' authorities. Which conveniently neglects any self blame or guilt and suits their ideology perfect. But it forgets to mention one of the major reasons the authorities failed these girls is because of the culture of political correctness endemic within this country which the offenders knowingly used to intimidate officials. There is no other profession in this country where unproven allegations of racism are as toxic to an individuals career and life than the police thanks to decades of left wing criticism and lobbying of the police.
When a vunerable white girl is called a 'white bitch' while been beaten by a Pakistani man for daring to fight back his attempts to rape her, when one of the rapists screams 'Allah Akbur' when been sentenced in court, when the father of one of the girls is convicted of inciting racial hatred for confronting the rapist...how can it be anything else but cultural?
Classism did have a part to play undeniablely. In the sense middle and upper classes sees working class lives as expendable in persuit of their political aims of a multicultural society. Prehaps out of arrogance, they see the token Westernised middle class Pakistani who has abandoned their traditional cultural values of seeing women as property and hanging homosexuals as indicative of Pakistani immigration to the UK and any working class person (who has to live with the legion of Pakistanis intent on retaining their traditional cultural values) who disagrees must just be a closet bigot and liar.
Probably the place that is most evident with is with the English Defence League (EDL) and Unite Against Fascism (UAF) who regularly counter protest EDL demos in an attempt to deny them their freedom of speech. While the EDL is portrayed as violent scummy thugs UAF is portrayed as idealistic, well meaning young people despite consistently achieving 10x the arrests at demos. Prehaps this is because the EDL is made of blue collar, rough around the edges, working class men where as UAF is made up of privilaged middle class students (who are in fact violent radicals intent on using political violence to crush dissenting opinions).
Ultimately not all cultures are equal. If you want one of the most sexist, homophobic and bigoted cultures in the world taking over communities in the UK please continue to support lax immigration laws which allow people unwilling to abandon them for mainstream British values to enter. However note it is not you who will bare the brunt of that decision, once again it will be the working class who suffer while you are protected in your leafy suburbs by your wealth.