We recently wrote about the grooming gangs of Pakistani men raping lower class white Brit girls.Today shows up a review of a 1980 (!) book by Prof. Alison Shaw, a Brit sociologist who studied the imported-from-Pakistan culture of the men who were the perps.
Shaw shows how the perps explain their criminal behavior to themselves and to their families, where it is considered normal. She quotes a perp thus.
“The difference is, English people don’t care. The girls don’t mind; you tell them you can’t marry them, you’re just passing your time, and they don’t bother. They’re just passing their time too. If their brothers or fathers got angry, we would understand, but they don’t bother. Mostly, they are not even living in the same place. How can you respect men like that? They just say it’s the girl’s choice, it’s her life, and that’s what the girls say too.”
The British police have tended to take the same attitude, it is a class thing for them. Both the Asian men and the police consider the girls involved to be “other” which is to say, not good people like us. As those making bad choices and deserving of what happens to them.
From the date of Shaw’s book you can tell the Brits have understood the roots of the grooming gangs issue for decades and have chosen to do nothing about it. So much for #MeToo.
