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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Replying to @TellerGrim
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @TellerGrim
It may be naive, but I do actually think that the United States is much less likely than European states to adopt anything like this.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @TellerGrim
Enh This isn't terribly different from the right-wing moral panic over "MS-13" we're having right now (targeting Latinos), or the old-school freakouts people had over "gang culture" and "the Crips and the Bloods" (primarily targeting Black men)
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The Crips and Bloods obviously did in fact exist People in those gangs did awful things This does not in any sense mean the "gang-related activity" ordnances in LA or stop-and-frisk in NY were proportionate and justified and effective and based in reality
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TellerGrim
the 80s and 90s were a different era; it may come back around of course, but it doesn't feel like we're at the brink of it now.
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The MS-13 bullshit might have if the Dems hadn’t done well in ‘18?
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