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
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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