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Originally Posted by Beso
If it's not race issues then why do the pakistani grooming gangs only target white kids?
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I'm not saying that there aren't cultural issues within those specific gangs, I'll quote my own post from previous thread on this even;
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Originally Posted by Quantum Boy
Its a little more complicated than that unfortunately; a genuine part of the issue is ideas and attitudes towards (specifically) western women that men who are born and raised in a quite insular culture are exposed to from a young age, i.e. High exposure to a sort of "myth" that young white women are sexually available and sexually interested.
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I do understand that mechanism.
And my point also isn't that the existence of other grooming gangs "cancels out" the existence of Pakistani grooming gangs or makes that issue in itself any less important or any less in need of tackling; my point is that public chatter (and media coverage) only talking about those as examples leads a lot of people who aren't aware of the scale of the problem, to be blind to the whole problem, when 90% of grooming gangs (and 99% of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation) is not a race issue. Should every one of those grooming gangs be wiped from the face of the planet - absolutely. Would achieving that end the problem - no, it would only be a small gain in something much bigger.
We only have so much in terms of resources, so the focus CAN'T be on one specific "type" of child sexual exploitation and firing every available resource at that one problem, and reporting on it in a way that makes it sound like that's the bigger problem or the biggest "part" of the overall problem.
People at this point are very aware of things like Rotherham, but are still shocked (or simply don't believe it) when they discover that these sorts of things are happening absolutely everywhere, and because people aren't aware of that, they aren't looking out for it happening on their doorstep. "There's no Pakistani grooming gangs in my village we'd have noticed" - sure very good - would you have noticed if there's one being run by Bob next door and Ted three doors down? Because it's far less unlikely than people think. Horribly.