Well obviously yes. 1997 was the tail end of the Major government. Everything was broken.
My problem is, this is a complex issue spanning class, misogyny, underfunding, patriarchal values etc etc. It's been researched a lot by both sides and so far there is no convincing data that the ethnicity and heritage of the offenders caused these crimes.
Yet a lot of people seem happy to simplistically buy into it, and parrot it back
"The police were scared of racism"
"If I said what I really thought about the way white girls were sacrificed en masse on the alter of the Left’s obsession with multiculturalism while the police & officials deliberately turned a blind eye in order to protect ‘community cohesion’, I would be banned from MN for life, so 🤐."
Quoted and agreed with a lot
"We need to say it how it is. These are white, vulnerable children being targeted by southern Asian males" - "Everyone knows this in the NW don't they? It's so fucking commonplace"
"There are many teenaged boys, in my experience as a foster carer, all Pakistani or Bangladeshi, who were being trained up as pimps. They could pose as “boyfriends “ who inducted the girls through rape and later threats to families and carers, and the girls were passed on to the older men once their will had been broken"
"And how many of these rapists have been given rights in the basis of their ‘family life’ in the U.K. and allowed to stay with wife and kids?"
"They are not just Pakistani but from the Mirpur/ Azad Kashmir region. Most of them are related. It's a learned pattern of behaviours. The account from the woman on another thread mentioned her groomer also being abused by other relatives. It's all bound up with honour culture which is all about policing your females (getting a Talking To if you are seen out talking to Other Boys) because you don't want to end up like those girls. Because what are those girls ever good for except getting an income from?"
"Easier to dismiss the white girls than the asian grooming gangs"
"I wonder how many ribbons and parades, days of training and campaigns the police, and special ‘staff’ all these police officers, children's homes, schools and social services will have to ‘reeducate’ them to do their bloody jobs?"
"it's about close knit Pakistani Muslim communities...they were business owners, restaurant owners, self employed taxi drivers, and their male relatives. They were powerful in their community."
This is so racist.
Meanwhile GC posters are hurt by other feminists observing that there is lots of overlap in GC spaces with right wing, white supremacist rhetoric. Well there it is, in glorious technicolor. Just disgusting.