Rjan:
ArcticMonkey:
Rjan:
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You really are something aren’t you?
The typical left wing view that it is somehow the fault of the girls and their own vulnerability which makes them easy meat for these gangs.
I thought you might reply along these lines, but I’m going to double down: it is the way the state and the community treats these girls which makes them not just easy meat but very often complicit in protecting crooks and concealing the goings-on.
I’m not blaming the girls though. I’m blaming you. I’m charging you with having not a shred of sympathy with these girls, and no intention to help them whatsoever, you only intend to use them as pawns in your own right-wing agenda to demonise Muslims.
In this way you’re exploiting the victims yourself, just in a different way.
I’m sure they didn’t consent to being gang raped, drugged, sold, tortured and even killed.
No, but these gangs are not generally accused of killings or druggings. They are accused in some cases of supplying drink and drugs to girls who have consumed them willingly, and they are accused in some cases of running pimping operations.
They are also accused of maltreatment and perhaps subjecting girls to criminal force or pressure in the moment, but they are not accused of Joseph Fritzl-type abductions. The girls were free to leave (and free to not return) in general.
You’re appearing to been a muslim grooming gang apologist. Not all the girls came from bad homes. The gangs used to wait outside the school gates and tempt them with their flash cars and shower them with gifts and fake love.
And how many girls from good homes do you know, who suddenly sleek off into drugs and prostitution, just because some strange man pulls up at the high school gates in a flash car?
The overall impression of the girls involved is that they are either from state care, or from extremely bad homes where parental relationships have fallen apart (even if they are still nominally fed and sheltered, although in many cases children seem to be at risk of homelessness).
When I point out that the girls are complicit, I’m not attempting to reduce sympathy or concern for them. On the contrary, I ask rhetorically, how bad does a girl have to be treated, that she falls under the spell of pimps and lowlifes? How starved of love and short of money do you have to be, that minor gifts and fake love start to seem worthwhile?
Even when the abusers are rather nasty, and even if the ■■■ itself is unwanted, these men represent people to whom girls can go readily when their parents throw them out, when they’re sick of other people at the children’s home, when they need food, or just when they want some decent money to go out and have a good time.
No matter what their home lives were like, this does not give adults to take advantage of the girls bad situation
And that’s quite right. Nobody is suggesting letting rapists and drug dealers off scot free.
But the more people like you refuse to help the victims and improve their circumstances, the more they will just refuse to cooperate with the authorities (which is already a serious problem).
It’s said in one case the police failed to act because the girl in question had a habit of resisting and attacking them, because she was sick of being told she couldn’t drink and had to return to the children’s home - ultimately to the extent she was herself charged with assaulting a police officer.
If these girls are properly helped and cared for, then they necessarily become less vulnerable to abuse, and the problem solves itself.
But I suspect this is not you want to hear. You want to hear some sort of justification to hector the Muslim community more, not someone telling you we need to take better care of children. Which doesn’t mean just immediate material needs, but love and care, the security of knowing that needs will continue to be met, and some sort of hope for the future. That is what these abusers provide to some degree or in some manner.
You appear to be putting the blame at everybody except the muslim gangs. They used manipulation and death threats to their families to keep them subversive. The girls couldn’t easily walk away