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masfuerte • today at 2:02 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It's not that simple. To my knowledge, this problem goes back to the 1980s at least, and back then it wasn't Asian gangs. The excuses were the same. Social workers believed the under-age girls were entitled to a love life. Police thought they were slags. Nobody actually cared about them. Nobody did anything.

The ethnicity of the more recent perpetrators just provided another excuse. It wasn't the root cause of the inaction.


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nailer • today at 2:09 PM

This seems like the "you can't flip the switch" meme.

Yes, it really is that simple. I can leave my laptop unattended in an unlocked coworking space in Singapore because people know they'll be punished if they rob me. It's marvellous.

I haven't heard of a similar case of organized mass rape in the UK before this, so it's surprising to read you comment, but if you have sources add them here. Like many of the UKs (and Europes) problems, the issue isn't ethnicity, but rather Islam, which explicitly permits sexual slavery.