on first blush, tho, it reads most like trafficking panic media in the US extremely lurid! unspeakable horrors! unbelievable scale! mass complicity! well usually when stories are unbelievably awful, the focus ought to be applied not to "awful" but to its modifying adverb
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eg: it is just not true that in the US thousands of women sex slaves are dragged to the super bowl and sold to ravening fans. it doesnt happen. and yet! you can read this dreck Every Damn Year the only reliable outcome is pageviews and NGOs and cops getting fat on donations
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go further and look at other moral panics. white slavery! black metal satanists! pedophile rings in nurseries! dungeons and dragons, for christ's sake! people get whipped up, send some poor people to prison, and stop paying attention for the inevitable judicial reversal
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I'm not saying it's impossible; only that if I were a betting man I'd say p=0.7 it falls apart under scrutiny :/
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here's the piece incidentally https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-worst-ever-child-grooming-12165527 …
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this the new rotherham'y thing? every time a new one of those pops up i try to find real people from the area having genuine conversations about it and never can :(
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yeah :/
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My main heuristic here is “If something’s happened once, it can happen again”
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nah famalam this stuff happened before in rotherham you know
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