Thread by @DrJessTaylor

White politicians referring to white CSE victims as ‘our girls’ is a whole heap of racism, misogyny and sexualisation of girls which implies that only white men can rape and abuse them, and that they don’t care about the rape and abuse of Black and minority ethnic girls at all.

The systemic racism in CSE continues, as it always has done. Lots of people are invested in pretending that the majority of perps are South Asian, despite the majority of perps (87%) being White British.

But this rhetoric about owning the girls.... ‘they raped ‘our girls’ is 🤢

It’s literally the exact same mantra and slogan as EDL. All of their banners and arguments were ‘Muslims are raping our white girls’

What?

Since when did those pricks care about child abuse at all?

Well, they didn’t, until they decided they owned all white girls.

There is now this huge ‘conspiracy theory’ that the govt and professionals like me are ‘covering up’ the scale of Pakistani Muslims raping ‘our white girls’ when it just isn’t true. The majority of all CSE offenders are white men. There’s no way around that. Other than lying.

Where the perps were actually Pakistani, those large cases you read about in the news... their victims were not just white girls at all. In fact, their victims from Muslim, Sikh and Black communities were ignored. It was a white wash. All those victims were ignored totally.

I know some of those victims and I cannot imagine what it must feel like to have their experiences ignored and misrepresented in the media and in politics year after year - like it never even happened to them - because all they care about is ‘our white girls’

If you are looking for a pattern in CSE offenders, the strongest trend and the most blatantly ignored pattern is the sex of the perps.

This isn’t an ethnicity thing, this is male violence against girls.

What annoys me most is the amount of people who have never even worked in CSE who think they know who the victims and perps were. Our frontline KNOW it was majority white men, because they worked on those cases for years.

But the sensationalising of the cases where the perps were Muslim whipped up stereotypes and deepened racism to a dangerous level in which even some charities and professionals believed it and created resources about Pakistani guys raping white girls.

To those who say ‘but but in those cases the Pakistani men called the white girls racist terms so that means it’s a racist crime’

Nah, what you are seeing there is violent, misogynistic sex offenders using literally any slur that would work to oppress and harm their victim.

Don’t people realise that these men were raping girls in the local community, raping girls in their own families, raping girls they met through other men and through the girls?

The issue is that ONLY the white girls were seen as victims of them, and even then, treated like shit

I don’t know how any politician can now stand up and use the phrase ‘our girls’ after we literally ignored, gaslit, victim blamed and failed to protect pretty much every single one of those girls. Hence the Jay Report and countless SCRs which showed how much we failed those girls

But now they are ‘our girls’ right? When it supports a racist narrative?

Fuck your ‘our girls’.

I was one of those professionals working in SV and CSE across those years and no one gave a fuck about them.

That apathy was amplified even more for Black and South Asian girls.

Final thing I’m going to say on this is that I’m appalled how many academics know this data inside out and say nothing. Academics at top unis getting grants and promotions for research in CSE and sex offending who don’t step out and fight the racism.

Appalled. Shame.