One of the fun things about the political establishment and its influencers in the press is that sometimes the weight or momentum of something becomes so tremendous that they have to acknowledge it. What was peddled as tin-foil-hattery by partisan scolds is dragged out into the daylight—the red-headed stepchild, center stage, almost impossible to miss. It’s not a pretty sight. Cue post November 2024 American Democrats if you need a trafficked and molested poster child for “the look.” The best they’ve been able to do so far was turn out last weekend to protest something that isn’t real. Talk about trademark worthy—a signature statement of truth about a par that can’t stop lying.
Across The Pond the UK establishment and its little bitches in the media have been insisting that all the talk about Aisan grooming gangs is racist twaddle. To prove it, they issued a paper in 2020 insisting it was, in fact, primarily white men who were responsible for the sexual abuse and trafficking of children (half an admission). The abuse was happening, but it wasn’t the Pakistanis or other Asian grooming gangs. It was the “indigenous” population—the pasty, pale, light-eyed descendants of previous waves of invaders.
How’d they arrive at that conclusion? By choosing to. The system, almost entirely, from top to bottom, didn’t bother to record the ethnicity of suspects or perpetrators.
The United Kingdom’s rapid audit on child sexual exploitation by so-called “grooming gangs” found that ethnicity is not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators nationally, … Additionally, the Casey Report found that authorities and organizations overlooked or deliberately ignored ethnic trends due to a “fear of appearing racist.”
Sadly, this tactic may have passed its shelf life, or the actual evidence has achieved escape velocity.
In the evaluation of 50 local reviews regarding child sexual exploitation involving multiple offenders, the ethnicities of perpetrators could be identified in only 15 localities, and ten of those involved perpetrators of predominantly Asian or Pakistani ethnicity. In Rotherham, Operation Stovewood found that nearly two-thirds of suspects — 64 percent — were recorded as having a Pakistani background, even though Pakistanis make up just about 4 percent of the town’s population. By contrast, just 22 percent of suspects are recorded as British. Of the convictions, 62 percent were recorded as having a Pakistani background.
So, Pakistani grooming gangs aren’t racist twaddle after all.
In many of these towns, girls were targeted specifically because they were white, while local officials covered up the scale of the abuse in part because of fears of being called racist or destabilising community relations. Politicians, social workers, journalists, judges, police officers, and lawyers were all complicit. Victims were disbelieved, slandered, and ignored; their parents were often punished for taking direct action against the gangs grooming their children. These crimes took place over decades — and in many communities, are almost certainly still taking place.
Not that it matters much. You can’t speak or write about it online without getting detained, arrested, and housed at taxpayer expense for your hate speech. And I don’t see the UK doing much about any of it. They’ve so sanitized the constables and those responsible for them that if they aren’t indoctrinated, they are in fear for their careers should they dare to protect anyone from anything but uncomfortable words on social media.
“We heard from police forces that local authorities would discourage them from publicising the successful conviction of perpetrators of group-based child sexual exploitation due to fears of raising tensions,” reads the Casey Report. “Instead of examining whether there is disproportionality in ethnicity or cultural factors at play in certain types of offending, we found many examples of organisations avoiding the topic altogether for fear of appearing racist, raising community tensions or causing community cohesion problems.”
Baby steps, yes. PM (Sir!) Keir Starmer has done a 180 (on paper) and is starting “an inquiry.” Grooming gang? Well, yes, perhaps, I don’t know, how about maybe? If it’s anything like the COVID inquiry, they’ll spend a considerable amount of time and money to arrive at an inconclusive result that’s too awkward to acknowledge.
Or they could blame white people, and they’d be right if they meant the white people running the government who ignored it, tried to hide the truth, and created the culture that made it inappropriate to discuss or prosecute, allowing it to continue.
