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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As told 3
“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.”
“the police said this would create racial problems if we investigate this...the catastrophe is to decide that we don't talk about it”
“this appears to be ultra-political correctness...I think that this is just an inverted and maybe even more terrifying form of racism”
What it carries
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contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
cultural turn of the left
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authentic multiculturalism
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political correctness
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1Alexandra Kollontai1Matteo Salvini1Pablo Iglesias Posse1Chantal Mouffe2Walter Mignolo1Guy Sorman1Jean Genet1
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Every retelling 3
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
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