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Slavery Ensnares Thousands in U.K. Here’s One Teenage Girl’s Story
- kazinator 9y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqmVvQuzGO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqmVvQuzGO4
- ZenoArrow 9y agoWhat did you hope to convey by posting that here?
- shrimp_emoji 9y agohttps://youtu.be/_RnEK6GvM0o https://youtu.be/_RnEK6GvM0o
- ZenoArrow 9y agoGreat, more irrelevant songs. Have another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU2Pbm9wtnw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU2Pbm9wtnw
- kazinator 9y agoTrust whatever it conveys to you. It's a dub/poem tune from 1980 about immigrants struggling in London's underbelly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linton_Kwesi_Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linton_Kwesi_Johnson
- ZenoArrow 9y agohttps://play.google.com/music/preview/Tqjfus2ydxk6465wh63qkp5upf4?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-songlyrics https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tqjfus2ydxk6465wh63qkp... The lyrics talk about working various dead end jobs and getting no respect. That's not the same as working as a slave.
- kazinator 9y agoSorry about that. Tell you what, I will drop everything I'm doing and find an exactly matching dub tune. Knowing that one was a big time saver, so this might take a while.
- observation 9y agoPotentially contentious but important to point out (bearing in mind the bias of some types of 'normal' media is that it tells you everything except the most salient facts that have explanatory power). Slavery isn't being practiced by British people after a few hundred years of slavery abolition, the article doesn't spell it out but it's an import that came with other cultures, same as the witchcraft and FGM nonsense. With some exceptions slavery isn't really that economical today, the quantity of money mentioned in the article isn't that high when compared to typical working class jobs. It's something more like a habit picked up in an exogenous place, like foreign culinary traditions transferred throughout a diaspora.
- Helmet 9y agoCareful now, this is HN, the standard mainstream liberal orthodoxy still applies: diversity at absolutely ANY cost!
- interfixus 9y agoThe Ministry of Truth downvoters, predictably, are out in force. I'm sorry I only have one upvote to counter with.
- defen 9y agoNo mention of who is doing the enslaving, of course. The elite media play dumb on things like this, and then are shocked by things like Brexit and Trump. If a gang of white men rape a woman, it's front page news for a week, even if it was entirely made up (Tawana Brawley, Duke Lacrosse, UVA). That's ok though, because even if the facts in the particular case are wrong or entirely falsified, the narrative is what is important. We know that powerful white men exploit their privilege to take advantage of women. If a gang of non-white men groom and rape hundreds or thousands of children, it's on page A14 of the New York Times, and treated as this random bad thing happening in Old Blighty that is not part of a larger pattern, not an organized thing, not something that could start happening here (and if it did it would be totally random and not connected to anything else). To summarize my point: now that the Internet exists, it is far easier for people to find out what is really happening in cases like this. If you wonder why people don't believe things the elite media says, look no further than this story. People know they are being lied to; why would you trust someone on a topic when you know he's a liar on others?
- ZenoArrow 9y ago> "No mention of who is doing the enslaving, of course." Exactly, no mention of it, so don't jump to conclusions. If you're trying to suggest there's no white British gangsters in South London you're living in La La Land.
- cuckcuckspruce 9y agoThis comment will be detached as 'off-topic' and moved. Remember, respect women.
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- jansho 9y agoYou’ve obviously not heard of the Rochdale gang that was front page news for weeks. I don’t know about the US, but in the U.K. it’s pretty prevalent to associate minorities with a host of problems and crimes such as grooming and vandalism. The Rochdale story is absolutely disgraceful, but the comments and newspaper columns that I read scared me too - “This is proof that Asians are born sick” and “Why are we whites a minority in our country” and “Send them back to their country” and “Multiculturalism doesn’t work” and “We need another Final Solution.” Find out if there’s a pattern, yes, but to fix the problem, not to justify demonisation of an entire group of people. Unfortunately, it’s more fun to get the pitchforks out.
- andyjohnson0 9y agoThis is an important topic, but some of the comments here are shameful. Stop spreading hate.
- a-spade-a-spade 9y agoWe must counteract the downplaying of migrant's roles in sex abuse by bringing it to light [1]. No group should have special protections from being brought to justice because they are vulnerable to "hate" as you suggest. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140226115349/https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hZBG8KaAHpyMtDXe4S1_RZwzzJGw?docId=CNG.9836f256180055c58ccd50568c16ee9e.251 https://web.archive.org/web/20140226115349/https://www.googl...
- lsd5you 9y agoPeople are calling for a frank discussion of the facts. Intelligent people should be allowed to make critically minded judgements on what is the best way forwards for their countries. So much has been banned from the potential discussion by this attitude. Trying to contain the debate could be counter productive in the long run. If we shield people from moral inspection because of their minority status then that can serve to make their behaviour worse and actually validate 'hateful' positions. Think about spoilt rich children. Obnoxious, right? Well they're presumably not genetically so. It is because they have been spoilt. Well we are in danger of morally spoiling certain protected groups by not fairly assessing their behaviour and allowing them to blame all negatives in their lives on others (the straight white male) After all what is civilisation except a collective effort to get the best out of all particpants?
- InTheTank 9y agoWhat's shameful is that you are willing to passively allow the raping of women and children in the name of some misplaced sense of progressive / liberal morality. I am perfectly open to diversity, as long as the people brought in are civil and open to assimilate to our culture!
- minitel 9y agoYou're supporting rape and slavery by ensuring that any attempt to address it will be labeled as hate. Your racial worldview that downplays crimes by non-Whites has led to more suffering and tragedy than a million burned crosses. SHAME ON YOU.
- a-spade-a-spade 9y agoI feel humiliated that western nations keep bringing in migrants that don't hold western values, and then when they inevitably step out of line, our journalists and media outlets will not properly attribute their race or place of origin. In this case, the slavers are probably migrants. If they were white, I wager it would have said so in the article. That information about the slavers is absent indicates they are migrants - They had an interview with the 15 year old slave girl, she must have said something about her captor's outward appearance. If people in government jobs were not so afraid of being labelled a racist, we would have a much better time responding to things like gangs of pakistani men raping a huge number of white girls [1]. "90% of child sex abuse by gangs in Britain was committed by British Asian [migrants from SEA]". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_child_sex_abuse_ring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_child_sex_abuse_ring [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20140226115349/https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hZBG8KaAHpyMtDXe4S1_RZwzzJGw?docId=CNG.9836f256180055c58ccd50568c16ee9e.251 https://web.archive.org/web/20140226115349/https://www.googl...
- erikpukinskis 9y agoI’ll take your wager at 1:1 odds. How does 0.01BTC sound?
- minitel 9y agoI'd take that. Is there a third party we can use to make it legit?