  isfree/2025/jan/12/the-right-is-try ing-to-rewrite-history-with-its-tox ic-rhetoric-on-britains-gangs > this history is important to set the record straight in the face of critics who would erase the work of those who did drag this into the light, people such as matt goodwin, the academic turned reform ideologue, who extraordinarily claims that before 2011 there was basically nothing in uk media about this. it is important, too, because the women who exposed the grooming gangs held far more nuanced views about where race fits into the picture than many who came later, and certainly those who have scrambled on to the musk bandwagon, for whom the issue is significant primarily as a means of demonising muslims and justifying hostility to multiculturalism and mass immigration. > as bindel observed last week, many on the right have suddenly become laser-focused on the sexual abuse of girls  so long as they are white and their perpetrators are pakistani muslim. those focused exclusively on the ethnic origin and religious affiliation of a particular set of abusers, she added, are not really interested in the girls at all. > what is undeniable is that a high proportion of grooming gangs comprise white offenders, too. any analysis would have to account for both. only those blinded by an obsession with race would turn this into an exercise simply targeting pakistanis, or would claim that, in robert jenricks words, the problem arises from importing hundreds of thousands of people from alien cultures. > in the desire to present group-based cse as a kind of race war, non-white victims of grooming gangs get ignored. apologise take it from the observer's resident race commentator: you are blinded by an obsession with race
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