A Bit of Heavy Reading . . . .

NOT at all Terry ! .. wordsworth always contributes fairly..

Great debate on this one.

This article made me think very hard about a number of things. The reason why was that this story was the centre of the news for a number of days, on the BBC, ITV, Radio 4 and all the newspapers, tabloids and broadsheets. There were discussion programmes and editorials all talking about the cultural aspects of the crimes.

The comment and discussion overwhelmingly focused on what is was about Muslim men from the sub-continent that made this type crime so prevalent in the UK. The assumption was that it was far more common (per head of population) than white men doing the same thing.

Turns out that is not really true. Most abused girls are white. Most abusers are white. Most people in the UK are white. These things all go together.

Gangs of men who know each other have committed these terrible crimes. How such sick individuals get together surely varies and sometimes people’s friends will all be one race. No surprise there.

Most people on JC would presumably wish that we were all “one people under the sun” and all lived and played together nicely. Some believe that if we talk about prejudice, it makes prejudice all the more likely to happen.

Whilst I can see that point of view, it was not the JC Boards that raised this. It was days of media coverage which skewed all of this. At the same time similar crimes by gangs of white men only received the briefest of attention.

The lack of balance, as others have pointed out, was in the media, not amongst our good friends here.

That media bias was exactly what the article was about.

@terry wrote:

The media is always biased, but that doesn’t mean we have to be taken in by it.

Never a truer word said!
I could take it a tad more seriously if someone else had said it though.

I absolutely and uncontrelably believe everything in the DM that I read every morning! 8) :lol: