The United Kingdom (UK) Rape Gang Inquiry was published on June 16. The report details the findings of a privately funded and non-statutory investigation led by Robert Lowe and the Restore Britain Party. It alleges that organized criminal gangs have groomed, abducted, and raped up to 250,000 mostly young, white British girls and women. In a shocking turn, the allegations go back to the 950’s but most of the report is focused on the past decade,
Most of the accused rapists are Pakistani, Muslim males. Most of the victims are white. This has provided a compelling narrative for those who want to drive a spear point into the heart of UK migration policy. Others fear the report will generate bad publicity for the UK government’s entire migration project and incite racist, anti-immigrant backlash.
The British police and government’s disastrous handling of rape cases, paired with the rise in crime on its watch, and its systemic destruction of civil liberties, has fermented extreme public dissatisfaction. Paradoxically, by granting alleged rapists a privileged status by which their crimes are concealed because of their demographic background is itself racist and does not engender multiracial tolerance and harmony.
The MeToo era insisted all women should be heard and believed. The current identity ideology demands that some females should have no voice or justice based on the race and religion of their alleged rapists. In the UK Gang Rape Equation, a white, teenage British girl has more privilege than the Pakistani, Muslim man who raped her.
Individual human beings have been subjected to violent sexual attacks. Their families have been punished for reporting it to the police or for going public about it. And the state works hard to maintain a disarmed public unable to defend its women. It is important to recognize that some claims in the inquiry are unverified and produced with the intention of pushing a migration crackdown. Nevertheless, the level of credible accounts of rape victims being handed back to their rapists, of officers making disparaging and diminishing comments to the victims, and of a congenial relationship between police and rapists is shocking.
The UK’s obsession with identity politics and fear of right-wing talking points has ensured young women are officially punished for having been raped. In the current political climate, it is more important to avoid looking racist than to avoid looking misogynist.
There will be a backlash. Despite the determined interests of the UK and other governments to persist with identity politics, the unintended consequence will be collectivist blame and violent backlash. As soon as there is a systemic bias against some groups and other groups within the same social order, the rejection of the policy will mean explosive conflict.
More right-leaning parties may arise in the UK and Europe, with their own ICE-like raids. Individuals will be lost in the fray; human rights will be destroyed as reactionary policies fuel reactionary policies. The same police and public officials who would return a victim to the rapist, destroy evidence, and ruin victims’ lives will continue to serve any master, including the detention and deportation of immigrants, or worse.
A conversation on race, religion, and gang rape was sparked in Australia in 2000. A Western Sydney youth gang of fourteen Lebanese teenagers went on a vicious rape spree, hunting women in a high-profile case. There was the predictable reaction against multiculturalism and Islam, but the police didn’t engage in a cover up. It was a different world in 2000. A quarter of a century later, and the binaries of political thinking have turned identity into an obsession. Maybe the Lebanese rape gang would receive special treatment today.
In the battle of collectivism and demographic privilege, the individual is lost. The victims of these rapes and assault are all individual human beings who have suffered terrible and miserable acts. The rapists are disgusting and vile human beings. It seems the rapists have made it about race and religion; those protecting and covering up the rapists have done so as well. Collectivist thinking also teaches us to understand the feminist expression, “not all men, but somehow always a man.” All the rapists were men. All their victims were women.
The only winner in this battle is power. Any victim of rape understands the vulgar and insufferable truth of power. To surrender to a public service, a monopoly that continues to strip away freedom and rights is an indignity to all. The rapists, those who would do such things, deserve a fate that no judge or jury could invent. The victims and their families know what is best for such men. It is a version of ancient justice the rapists will likely never suffer, and that’s a shame.
