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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Replying to @arthur_affect
What even WAS Rotherham? I could never separate the racist propaganda from the facts, thanks to the state of UK journalism.
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Replying to @TellerGrim
The Rotherham scandal was a legitimately horrifying series of crimes largely caused by economic circumstance -- working-class young girls who relied on rideshare/cabs to get around after school, a profession dominated by MENA immigrant men
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TellerGrim
That much is clear What is troublesome is the eagerness with which politicians picked this up to turn it into a Clash of Civilizations or argue that it is the nature of Muslim immigrants to despoil white womanhood etc.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TellerGrim
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @TellerGrim
Men alone with women/girls unsupervised is a dangerous situation Riding in someone else's car is a dangerous situation (and it's why Uber's unregulated service has led to such a rash of crimes wherever it's spread)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TellerGrim
What is also dangerous is singling out Rotherham as unique, arguing that the series of rapes that occurred was some kind of "organized community operation", and trying to mobilize the community to "declare war" on it
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I mean shit, we've been through this before No one denies that 9/11 happened, or that the attack was an atrocity -- thousands of people fucking died That doesn't mean that *anything* the US did in response to that attack was *at all* okay
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