#argumate

You don't need to tell me that, I'm on record saying that "grooming gangs" is an overly PR-friendly euphemism, "Rotherham rape rings" is more accurate, and the somewhat-hardline-but-still-reasonable take is that they brought back slavery to Britain.

There's a long and murky sliding scale from alienation of affection, to giving alcohol to teens, to giving cocaine to a 12-year-old. The general category of the Rotherham rape rings is disturbingly large and contains many different degrees of manipulation and coercion used to make children sexually available in different cases. In some of the extreme cases, victims were held at gunpoint and branded and chained up so they couldn't escape from being pimped out for repeated gang rape, and that crosses the line into slavery.

In other cases, parents attempted to recover their children, and the response of cops was to arrest the parents for disturbing the peace, and hand the children back to slavers.

Argumate directs a reader's attention to more moderate cases when he discusses the Rotherham rape rings in terms like:

cops [...] being relatively uninterested in the sexual assault of children in the foster care system

argumate's response:

don't they spot them with satellites these days?

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