"Why liberals ignored the grooming gang scandal"https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-liberals-ignored-the-grooming-gang-scandal/Some word salad from the article written by Nick Tyrone, a former director of CentreForum, described as 'the closest thing the *Liberal Democrats* have had to a think tank'. He is author of several books including 'Politics is Murder'.'The truth is that too many liberals like me are guided by an instinct to protect ethnic minority communities from being targeted. That, in itself, is not a bad thing. We feared that, if a certain group of people was blamed for the abuse, then that group could become the victims of racial hatred, perhaps even violence. The thinking was this: “I don’t want blood on my hands, let’s close this conversation down, now.”But what is clear to see now is that the desire to keep people safe meant that we became blind to the evils carried out by a small minority of people from the Pakistani Muslim community. In our desire to avoid offence, and keep people safe from violence, liberals turned a blind eye to an industrial scandal.Call it “woke”, call it what you like, but the essence of this mode of thinking that was too common among liberals was that white people (Jews ?) are the oppressors, while ethnic minorities (Palestinians ?) are the victims. This lens through which people viewed the world removed class and even economic inequality pretty much entirely from the mix; it allowed upper-middle class people to feel good about themselves, while not having to worry about the poor any longer'.Don't think the quote - 'This lens through which people viewed the world removed class and even economic inequality pretty much entirely from the mix; it allowed upper-middle class people to feel good about themselves, while not having to worry about the poor any longer' - will go down too well in West Putney !
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