tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post8087308498476184869..comments2024-01-20T02:06:45.388-08:00Comments on The Political Omnivore: Political Correctness - A Real Threat?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-18531625662888364822016-01-24T02:31:35.102-08:002016-01-24T02:31:35.102-08:00I don’t think the police were trying to cover up t...I don’t think the police were trying to cover up the child rapes in Rotherham out of fear of provoking white pogroms against Asians. Even after the full scale of the rapes was revealed, there were no such pogroms or attempted pogroms.<br /><br />I think a major factor in the police suppression of the crime wave was the Macpherson Report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Lawrence was a black teenager brutally stabbed to death by a group of white teenagers in south east London in 1993. The original police investigation into Lawrence’s murder was badly botched, resulting in the suspects going free. The Macpherson Report into the case declared that the police were “institutionally racist” - that is, even if no one in the entire police service was racist, and there were no police procedures which were in any way racist, and there was no evidence of racism at any level of police operations, there was still a kind of metaphysical racism built into the very existence of the police as an institution. I think it’s reasonable to describe this narrative as a form of political correctness.<br /><br />The south London police really did behave terribly in the Lawrence case, probably more because of corruption than racism: the father of one of the suspects was a local drug smuggler known to be bribing local police officers. Nonetheless, post-Macpherson, all UK police forces were incredibly sensitive to the institutional racism charge, especially since Macpherson had set no standard by which they could ever show they weren’t institutionally racist. In this climate, the emergence of a heinous crime wave apparently limited to one ethnic minority was the police’s worst nightmare. If they revealed it, there were many waiting in the wings prepared to weaponise the apparent ethnic disparity as a way to profitably attack the police. Read about the career of Lee Jasper to get a sense of how unscrupulously some people have behaved.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com