"Victimhood Culture" UK: Rape Victims Need Not Apply
by Judith Bergman • May 16, 2020 at 5:00 am
"Almost 19,000 children have been sexually groomed in England in the past year, according to official figures that have prompted warnings of an 'epidemic'. Campaigners say the true figure is far higher...." — The Independent, December 2019.
"The government's repeated failure to acknowledge the role of racism and religious bigotry in grooming gang crime has led to inadequate investigation, protection and prosecution," one survivor, who wanted to remain anonymous, told The Independent in December 2019.
In the era of "victimhood culture", in which so many groups vie for the top spot of "most victimized", being an actual victim of sexual abuse apparently has little currency among the social justice elites. Where, for example, are the feminists in all this? Where is the "me too" movement?
As the government is too squeamish publicly to debate the findings of the review, it is bound to be even more terrified of being seen as specifically targeting ethnic rape gangs to stop their crimes -- yet that is what victims such as Ella are asking them to do. Not to mention that basic democratic principles of the public's right to information are being completely disregarded.
In July 2018, Britain's then Home Secretary Sajid Javid ordered a review into the characteristics of child sexual grooming gangs. "The scandal of child grooming gangs is one of the most shocking state failures that I can remember," he said.
"I will not let cultural or political sensitivities get in the way of understanding the problem and doing something about it. It is a statement of fact... that most of the men in recent high profile gang convictions have had Pakistani heritage... I've instructed my officials to look into this unflinchingly."
The review was long overdue, to say the least. In 2015, Prime Minister David Cameron told the BBC that the rape and sexual abuse of underage girls had been "on an industrial scale": "Young girls... being abused over and over again on an industrial scale, being raped, being passed from one bunch of perpetrators to another bunch of perpetrators". According to The Independent:
