Some passages from "Easy Meat." Most of the most horrific stuff has circulated on X already, but I want to emphasize the complicity of UK institutions with the rape gangs. As early as 1988, the authorities knew about it. It sparked a Sikh race riot when the cops did nothing.
Childcare professionals were talking about rape gangs in Bradford in 1991, more than 20 years before the first prosecutions. Authorities did nothing this entire time.
The children's charity Barnardo's created a project to educate 5-13 year old girls (!) about the threat of groomers in Bradford in 1995, but never once mentioned ethnicity or religion, and didn't try to spark prosecutions.
Social services in Rotherham knew about the gangs in 1996, and Sikhs had their own institutions putting out warnings. Authorities did nothing for decades.
Channel 4 news mentioned that in 2003 more than 30 white girls, some as young as 11, were known to be raped and pimped in Keighley. No mention of "who" and no broader outcry.
A 2004 documentary about the gangs was censored at the request of the local police, who feared race riots. Let this be a lesson: if you want the British state to stop your girls from being raped and pimped, you have to credibly threaten to burn down cities.
West Yorkshire police had a unit to investigate the gangs, but shut it down over fear of racism, which is why there were no prosecutions until 2013 when the problem was known in 2003. Accusations of racism should be taken as mass rape apologia.
The Serious Organized Crime Agency made a documentary about the gangs in 2008 with reference to the term for their Dutch equivalents, Loverboys, but never actually showed it to its intended audience (school girls at risk).
Another 2008 BBC documentary (which never mentioned ethnicity or religion) about the gangs that made waves in Parliament, who therefore also knew by then.
It took until 2011 for the omerta around the gangs to really crack with Andrew Norfolk's article, possibly impelled by EDL protests.
Schools knew about "Asian" men loitering outside to pick up their victims, but did nothing to educate about the threat, possibly because the teacher's unions were in the pocket of an org called "Unite Against Fascism" (as you can guess from the name, a pro-child-rape org).
Local councils also knew, and actively covered things up, both to avoid criticism and out of concern for "racism."
Police knew and did nothing, even when parents did all the investigation for them, and even when the victims themselves called them for help. Again out of concern for racism. Anti-racism means covering up mass child rape.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) barely touched the gangs (by far the most horrific and large-scale child exploitation in Britain), instead focusing on online pedos and foreign trafficking, even when parents asked for help.
David Winnick, Labour MP for Walsall North tried (and failed) to insert a rider into the Home Affairs Select Committe report that “the perception, that grooming perpetrators are largely of Asian, British Asian or Muslim origin” was false, a flagrant and known lie.
Children's charity Barnado's which knew about the problem since 1996, never talked about the ethnicity of the perpetrators or victims.
Academics worked assiduously to... obfuscate the races of the victims and perpetrators.
This whole book is sickening. Big takeaway: almost every institution for children's welfare in Britain knew about the rape gangs decades before any prosecutions and worked hard to cover up the massive industrial scale child rape and prostitution of white girls by Pakistani men. The only group to really push back on this was the Sikhs by rioting themselves. Throughout all of this, the UK continued giving visas to Pakistani men and paying them large sums of money to live in England. UK delenda est.
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Employers hiring people and then training them in the specific skills they require has declined as a hiring model for decades, in favor of a hiring market where employers look for people who already have those skills.
In the training/internal labor markets model, a company struggling to find specific skills will train promising entry-level employees. In the hiring market model, they can raise wages or otherwise improve conditions. In both, they can also substitute technology for labor.
Neither a hiring market nor training model for matching jobs to seekers is compatible with "skill shortages" as a concept, which implicitly assumes skills are fixed and once people with those skills run out employers can do nothing (except through immigration or schooling).
"Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (TR Fehrenbach, 1973/1995) thread of threads. Mesoamerican civilization was horrifying and very backwards by Old World standards, but unique.
Excerpts from TR Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (1995). The PRI had massively expanded higher education. These universities were entirely 'free'/self-governing and became locuses of left-wing organizing.
In 1968, security forces fired upon a massive student demonstration/riot against the Olympic Games.
By 1970 Mexico had made enormous progress; the national income increased sixfold while the death rate dropped by half. But Mexico was still struggling with foreign-exchange; the govt pursued import-substitution to improve balance-of-payments.
Thread with excerpts from the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR) section of TR Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (1995). Calles created the PNR in 1929 to institutionalize the govt and Revolution, creating a Mexican party-state.
The Calles/Obregon governments were corrupt, but never succumbed to paranoia; there was no equivalent to the Soviet or Chinese liquidations of class enemies, the press was free, and the average Mexican had nothing to fear from the govt (Red Terror against the Church aside).
Roughly 19M acres were redistributed through 1933; most land remained with latifundios. But the new latifundios were not like the old ones, they were commercial enterprises rather than social systems. The clerics, army, and latifundistas were all tamed by Calles/Obregon.
Thread with excerpts from TR Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (1995), on post-Revolutionary Mexico. To justify land reform, the revolutionaries revived the principle that expropriation was justifiable if the national interests demanded it.
The Constitutionalists defeated the Villistas in battle and assassinated the leader of the last revolutionary faction, Zapata, by treachery.
Carranza, the erstwhile leader of the victorious Constitutionalists, dug his own grave by trying to promote someone other than Obregon to the presidency after him; he was forced to flee the capital, run down, and murdered.
Excerpts from TR Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (1973). The Porfiriato gave Mexico a generation of stability and development for the first time since independence. This left Mexico overdue for another civil war: the Mexican Revolution.
One problem was that the Porfirian school system had created a large, literate middle structure (not class). These educated mestizos became dissatisfied due to lack of opportunity; growth was rapid but not rapid enough to absorb them all.
The Revolution kicked off in 1910, when Diaz announced he'd won reelection with 99% of the vote. This kicked off an insurgency in Chihuahua, in the mestizo, frontier north.