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
Yeah, that's what all the pieces I read about it at the time accused it of being.
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Replying to @TellerGrim @arthur_affect
Which, obviously, I didn't feel good about believing.
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What we know is that 1) A shockingly high number of cab drivers have committed sexual assault 2) The people who do it did so serially and for a long time 3) A lot of the perps knew each other and were friends/accomplices
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TellerGrim
This is, unfortunately, fairly common for this kind of crime What is controversial is the leap from these facts to the idea that there was one big "operation" that organized *all* of these assaults, and that this was a "Muslim community" thing
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Which seems to me to be wild exaggeration/speculation, based on the fact that there are clusters but those clusters are of people who knew each other organically (a family of guys who owned a cab company, two roommates who were in on it together, etc.)
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