This has been brewing for a while, with people on all sides making excuses for Xinjiang The right-wing surge in the UK has been itching to make Rotherham into a casus belli, with the TERF brigade elevating old neocons like Emma Nicholson back into left-wing respectabilityhttps://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1329878093159395330 …
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Or that the series of abuses that happened in Rotherham were one big organized conspiracy or coverup (a "grooming ring") and that MENA community leaders resisting racist accusations against a whole group of people were "all in on it"
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Yeah, that's what all the pieces I read about it at the time accused it of being.
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It sure as shit didn't help that the cops (some of whom had been captured on tape calling the girls "slags" and blaming them for their own sexual assault) were eager to latch on to the idea that their investigation efforts were being hampered by fear of Islamophobia accusations.
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People completely uncritically swallowing the cops' line that "The only reason we fucked up -- or that we *ever* fuck up -- is we were afraid of being called out for racism, so you need to make it a rule that people can't do that" was astonishing
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