Dr Ella Cockbain is a leading British academic on the topic of grooming gangs.
And this important topic has given her an important mission: to make sure no one thinks grooming gangs are Muslim or Pakistani.
First, it's important to establish that results from her own study clearly show that the rape gangs are mainly Pakistani:
But she is not going to let such details as data get in the way of her ideology.
After she herself found the above results, she wrote a report for the Guardian, claiming that grooming gangs are not a Muslim problem, and stating this is a "far-right stereotype that has spread widely in the media", and that "If we really want to tackle this issue, we have to stop fixating on the lurid and false distraction of “Muslim grooming gangs”".
[Data detail: For more about how the Home Office report is flawed, see here: x.com/jonatanpallese…. But importantly, it's strongest study showed that 75% of offenders were Asian. And there are also many other studies showing results like this, including Ella Cockbains own study.]
In another article, she called Braverman "overtly racist" for saying that grooming gangs were mainly Muslim.
In her scientific articles, focuses heavily on attributing racist motives for people claiming that grooming gangs tend to be Muslim. For example:
"It can seem that the greatest effrontery about grooming is not the abuse of children but the interracial sex itself’."
"The racialization of ‘grooming gangs’ must also be understood in the context of a long history of racialized and gendered Islamophobia, or anti-Muslim racism.”
“We content that genuinely practiced anti-racist feminism is vital in tackling child sexual abuse and resisting anti-Muslim forces.”
Her work has had outsized influence on the discourse.
She said in an interview that there has been a lot of moral panic around so-called grooming gangs, and after this there appeared a Wikipedia article titled "grooming gang moral panic in the United Kingdom"
Her work was cited in the Home Office report — not her 2018 work showing that offenders are mainly Pakistani of course, but her work in describing such suggestions as anti-Muslim racism.
And her Guardian articles have been cited countless times both directly, and through their use as a credible source on Wikipedia.
In short, she has significantly polluted and obfuscated our knowledge pool. And we need to be more wary of such ideological infiltration in academia.
And this important topic has given her an important mission: to make sure no one thinks grooming gangs are Muslim or Pakistani.
First, it's important to establish that results from her own study clearly show that the rape gangs are mainly Pakistani:
But she is not going to let such details as data get in the way of her ideology.
After she herself found the above results, she wrote a report for the Guardian, claiming that grooming gangs are not a Muslim problem, and stating this is a "far-right stereotype that has spread widely in the media", and that "If we really want to tackle this issue, we have to stop fixating on the lurid and false distraction of “Muslim grooming gangs”".
[Data detail: For more about how the Home Office report is flawed, see here: x.com/jonatanpallese…. But importantly, it's strongest study showed that 75% of offenders were Asian. And there are also many other studies showing results like this, including Ella Cockbains own study.]
In another article, she called Braverman "overtly racist" for saying that grooming gangs were mainly Muslim.
In her scientific articles, focuses heavily on attributing racist motives for people claiming that grooming gangs tend to be Muslim. For example:
"It can seem that the greatest effrontery about grooming is not the abuse of children but the interracial sex itself’."
"The racialization of ‘grooming gangs’ must also be understood in the context of a long history of racialized and gendered Islamophobia, or anti-Muslim racism.”
“We content that genuinely practiced anti-racist feminism is vital in tackling child sexual abuse and resisting anti-Muslim forces.”
Her work has had outsized influence on the discourse.
She said in an interview that there has been a lot of moral panic around so-called grooming gangs, and after this there appeared a Wikipedia article titled "grooming gang moral panic in the United Kingdom"
Her work was cited in the Home Office report — not her 2018 work showing that offenders are mainly Pakistani of course, but her work in describing such suggestions as anti-Muslim racism.
And her Guardian articles have been cited countless times both directly, and through their use as a credible source on Wikipedia.
In short, she has significantly polluted and obfuscated our knowledge pool. And we need to be more wary of such ideological infiltration in academia.
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