The intellectual dishonesty and moral inconsistency of the Left is not a surprise to this writer. They've been doing it for years, and she's written a lot about it here at Twitchy, on X itself, and back in the Dark Ages of her blogging days.
But there is something that has shifted in recent years, and in a very alarming way: the Left has now decided that how one thinks -- especially if those thoughts can be interpreted as somehow bigoted -- is a greater offense than actual crimes.
We see this in America's 'restorative justice' and 'criminal justice reform' movement, which is predicated on the notion that America's laws are inherently, systemically racist. To that end, law enforcement (from police on up to prosecutors and judges) must look at the perpetrator of crimes through a lens of race. This is why a Black man with 80+ arrests to his name was nabbed on the subway again this week after stabbing two more innocent people. Locking him up would be racist, or something.
The rot of this thinking is far, far worse in the U.K., where the mere act of following someone on X results in an inquiry and hostage-video style apology for the 'hurt' caused by looking at a dissenting viewpoint. That's just the tip of the rotten iceberg, however.
As I have written about over the last several days, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Labour Party have been working hard to stifle any sort of inquiry into the 'grooming gang' scandal that took place in Britain for years. Calling them 'grooming gangs' is an insult to the thousands of victims -- the majority of them young girls -- who were not only groomed by gangs of Muslim men, but raped, sexually assaulted, abused, trafficked, and even killed.
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All while authorities turned a blind eye to the atrocities, lest they be labeled 'racist' and 'Islamophobic.'
Today, Starmer finally answered questions on the scandal. Pay close attention to what he says here:
Far-Right? Really?
For starters, the U.K. doesn't really have a 'far-Right', at least not in terms of political parties. But that's a topic for another post.
But let's recap exactly what it is we're demanding answers for, and what Starmer is seemingly hellbent on hiding from the public. From a piece I wrote yesterday:
In Telford, Lucy Lowe died at 16 alongside her mother and sister when her abuser set fire to her home in 2000. She had given birth to Azhar Ali Mahmood’s child when she was just 14, and was pregnant when she was killed.
Her death was subsequently used to threaten other children. The Telford Inquiry found particularly brutal threats. When one victim aged 12 told her mother, and the mother called the police, 'there was about six or seven Asian men who came to my house. They threatened my mum saying they’ll petrol bomb my house if we don’t drop the charges.'
Yet in a pattern that would repeat itself, Telford’s authorities looked the other way. When an independent review was finally published in 2022, it found police officers described parts of the town as a 'no-go area', while witnesses set out multiple allegations of police corruption and favouritism towards the Pakistani community. Regardless of the reason, the inquiry found that “there was a nervousness about race… bordering on a reluctance to investigate crimes committed by what was described as the ‘Asian’ community'.
Similar concerns applied at the council, where anxieties over appearing racist saw safeguarding officers waving away concerns simply because the perpetrators were Asian. It was felt that some suspects were not investigated because it would have been 'politically incorrect'.
And yet Starmer doesn't seem to care about Lucy Lowe, her mother, or her sister. Or the thousands of other British girls who were subject to abuse and rape and murder by members of the 'Asian community' (what an Orwellian turn of phrase that is).
In Starmer's world, the mere idea and perception that one might possibly be racist is a far worse offense than killing three people after repeatedly raping and impregnating one of them. It's 'Right-wing', and therefore can be dismissed out of hand. He thinks screaming 'racism!' gives him the moral high ground and absolution from his wrongdoing.
It does not.
Imagine, if you will, the Catholic Church trying this when its sexual abuse scandal came to light. Imagine the Pope defending the abuse and coverup as an attempt to not be 'racist', and imagine the Pope accusing anyone who dared question the Church as being 'Right-wing' -- then imaging using that accusation as grounds to avoid investigations and lawsuits.
It would have been utterly absurd. And it is absurd that Starmer is trying this.
In my world, when someone accuses you of something abhorrent like covering up child sex abuse in the name of 'tolerance' and 'diversity', the best way to prove those accusations wrong is to investigate them.
If the accusations are baseless -- as Starmer claims they are -- an investigation will absolve him of wrongdoing.
But he's not doing that. Because an investigation would not absolve him. There is overwhelming evidence that the government failed those girls in deference to political correctness.
So as the last refuge of any corrupt politician, he's trying to smear those of us rightly appalled by the abuse and the subsequent coverup as 'far-Right' and use that to dismiss our claims.
This is akin to saying his critics are literally Hitler because Hitler wore pants, and his critics wear pants, too.
Yet if demanding accountability for these crimes makes me 'far-Right', so be it. The EU has already labeled me a thought criminal, and I'd rather be either of those than complicit in the abuse of girls in the name of 'tolerance.'
