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Rotherham Pakistani gang rape cover-up

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In Rotherham, England, a Pakistani youth gang systematically raped young white working-class girls for years; police refused to investigate for fear of being accused of Islamophobia, illustrating the danger of paternalist multiculturalism that silences real problems.

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“Police said, 'No, no, no, if we investigate this, we will be accused of Islamophobia.' I think this is not respect for Islam. This is treating them in a paternalist way.”
~0:00 Disorder Under Heaven2019-04-03 · 1:21:50
“the police said this would create racial problems if we investigate this...the catastrophe is to decide that we don't talk about it”
2:20:32 Perfil Interview2018-09-09 · 2:59:07
“this appears to be ultra-political correctness...I think that this is just an inverted and maybe even more terrifying form of racism”

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~0:00 Disorder Under Heaven2019-04-03 · 1:21:50
In Rotherham, England, a Pakistani youth gang systematically raped young white working-class girls for years; police refused to investigate for fear of being accused of Islamophobia, illustrating the danger of paternalist multiculturalism that silences real problems., illustrating incompatibility of ways of life,multiculturalism's dangers,cultural turn of the left
2:20:32 Perfil Interview2018-09-09 · 2:59:07
In Rotherham, UK, organized Pakistani gangs systematically raped over a thousand working-class English girls for years; police avoided investigating to prevent accusations of racism. Žižek uses this to argue that multicultural avoidance of difficult truths cedes ground to the populist right., illustrating multiculturalism,political correctness,race
Hundreds of Pakistani gang rapes in Rotherham were systematically downplayed by police and left-liberals afraid of being called Islamophobic, which Žižek argues is itself an inverted, more insidious racism., illustrating inverted racism,political correctness and super-ego