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SIMON LINCOLN READER: Political correctness strives to conceal awkward truths
Impeding the creation of artificial realities is difficult when you consider that said realities are based around reluctance to criticise anything to do with Islam or black people
It used to be amusing to watch the left bumble its way through sympathetic excuses for humanity’s greatest crimes and worst decisions. But nowadays, they confront the truth differently — by pretending it doesn’t exist. In August, a court in Newcastle, Britain, convicted 17, mainly Pakistani and Bangladeshi, men of grooming and raping more than 700 mainly young white girls over several years. Shortly after the sentence was announced, Labour MP Sarah Champion expressed concern that political correctness was allowing this to flourish. Champion should know. Her constituency, Rotherham, was the scene of one of the worst cases of organised sexual abuse in the history of the UK — perpetuated by mainly British-Pakistani men. From 1997 until 2013, at least 1,400 girls between the ages of 11 and 15 were violated. After the publication of Champion’s opinion piece in The Sun, Labour issued her an ultimatum: resign or be pushed. She chose the former. I caught a glimpse of this kind of thing in 2...
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