Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers.
Signatories include the musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar as well as Labour, Green and independent MPs including Kim Johnson, Ellie Chowns, Diane Abbott and Zarah Sultana.
"We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division,” the letter says.
The open letter, titled Women Against the Far Right, follows a surge in protests outside accommodation housing asylum seekers and far-right attempts to exploit a number of cases of alleged sexual crimes involving asylum seekers.
I don’t get people pretending that’s not still rape. These things are still applicable, the UK isn’t a special exception.
yeah?? nobody’s saying it’s not?? so you are saying we need to protect the immigrants and give them more support? I’m all for that.
Yes, what’s more sex crimes tend to be “crimes of opportunity” - or to frame that idea differently - “crimes of circumstance”… And those circumstances tend to be created by a lack of money, lack of education, and an abdication of responsibility from those in charge.
Okay, I am discombobulated, you have discombobulated me. What was the point you were arguing for? Obviously I wasn’t getting it.
That the letter writing is a form of elite leftist denialism of the issues.
That it’s essentially covering over that there are issues to be discussed here, in favour of going after “the right” and trying to scold ones enemies rather than actually look into the issues (which I’m claiming are cultural and economic).
You know, sometimes it’s better to conceed than it is to alienate and deny.