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When I see you personally endorse a person or stance, it absolutely destroys any credibility I could ever have considered in the source. That's just my personal approach though.
I think it's really easy to suggest that "reverse racism" is to blame when before all else, the failure to assist these children came from deeply sexist beliefs. I think it's deeply off the mark. So we deal with the crippling issue of petty sexist white folks cowardly condoning injustice so that they may hang the minorities with their "fears" (that they feel safe voicing now, of course), then what?
What of the white teenagers who get raped by white people, and they get the same treatment as the girls raped by Pakistanis?
You think the police finding the 'bravery' required to finger the immigrants is going to deal with the actual issue: the unquestioned deeply-rooted consideration of teenage girls to be self-actualized sexual deviants aiming to destroy men's lives with rape accusations?
I think most of the cops and care workers didn't talk because they're ageist sexists, rather than they're "scared of being called racist". It's the most bogus pathetic excuse I really ever hear. "You can't speak the TRUTH without getting called racist these days!" I disagree, you absolutely can.
The fear of being called racist is so harsh, I guess generally treating teenage girls like shit is easier.
Your argument needs a couple of tweaks. It's not reverse racism, it's just fear of being labelled racist. It's a valid part of this problem.
But as you point out, the reason this fear was allowed to operate, is because of the classist, not just sexist attitudes of the whites. This is about class as much as sex. As I said earlier, if these were girls from solid middle or upper class homes (one nice thing about Britain is you can use those terms and nobody raises an eyebrow), no way fear of being labelled racist would have prevented the system from acting (it's not all about the cops) from the greater fear of the middle class outrage. The girls would not have been seen as deserving it or wanting it.