The Truth About Britain’s “Grooming Gangs,” With Ella Cockbain The truth can’t be racist, wrote British Home Secretary Suella Braverman in April of this year, as she peddled xenophobic and debunked tropes about South Asian men being a particular threat to British children. Braverman’s comments come after nearly a decade of national hysteria about so-called Pakistani “grooming gangs” roaming around the country, sexually abusing white children while overly woke authorities watch on, helpless, too scared to act, lest they be called racist.
Braverman, who herself is of South Asian (Indian) origin, made these comments in the far-right magazine The Spectator , an outlet that has published articles with titles such as “In Praise of the Wehrmacht” and “A fascist takeover of Greece? We should be so lucky.” Nevertheless, her screed breathed new life into the relentless push to demonize British Muslims. Here to talk about “grooming gangs,” academic malpractice, pseudoscience, and the malfeasance of the ruling British Conservative Party is Dr. Ella Cockbain ( https://twitter.com/DrEllaC ) , an associate professor in the Department of Security and Crime Science at University College London. Cockbain has been at the heart of scrutinizing the dangerous media tropes presenting Muslims as a threat. She is the author of the article ( https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306396819895727 ) “Failing Victims, fuelling hate: challenging the Harms of the ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ Narrative,” published in the academic journal Race & Class. https://www.mintpressnews.com/truth-britains-grooming-gangs-ella-cockbain/284934/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34410): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34410 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110414465/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
