That massive turnout to shift two white sex offenders is the NORM, not some rare exception. Locals organise, turn up in numbers, and force known offenders out of streets near kids and families. Happens all the time with British white men.
The claim that white sex offenders get ignored and not called out is pure bullshit narrative
The real difference kicks in when the same communities do it to refugees or immigrants who are sex offenders. Then big parts of the left and the media reframe it as racism instead of the same neighbourhood protection.
The underlying demand stays the same: high-risk sex offenders don’t belong next to families.
It doesn’t change with the offender’s background.
@GerryKeogh_ The Celtic fans I know in real life - not so much on here - are aligned almost completely with your outlook and opinions. These daft wee accounts are largely operated by the same person, it’s actually pathetic. I also think you have done a lot to build bridges and unify people 👏🏻
I remember being absolutely sickened by the commentary at the time.
People I once respected were falling over themselves to portray girls aged just 12 to 14 as racist thugs and aggressors. The implied accusations of racism were disgusting, as was the extraordinary eagerness to condemn children before establishing what had actually happened.
And now we know.
A grown man made sexual remarks towards a 12-year-old girl, assaulted her and behaved threateningly towards four young girls. His sister admitted dragging another girl to the ground by her hair and striking her. The sheriff rejected his account of events.
The punishment? Community service. Not a single day in prison.
I find that utterly disgraceful. What message does that send about the seriousness of intimidating and assaulting children?
But there is another elephant in the room. Class.
I cannot help wondering how differently this would have unfolded had these been middle-class girls from an affluent neighbourhood, rather than working-class girls from Lochee.
Would they have been branded racist thugs quite so readily? Would their distress have been dismissed? Or would we have heard endless lectures about safeguarding, trauma, sexual harassment and violence against women and girls?
I think we know the answer.
There is a particularly ugly form of class prejudice among some of our supposedly enlightened commentators. A frightened middle-class girl is a victim deserving protection. A frightened working-class girl with the wrong accent and postcode is apparently a thug.
And the implied racism narrative made it worse. The nationality of the adults involved should have been irrelevant. Had Scottish adults behaved this way towards Bulgarian girls, I suspect the outrage would have been deafening.
Some people were so desperate to identify racism that they appeared willing to overlook the actual abuse of children.
Police Scotland subsequently acknowledged that its initial account did not fully reflect what happened. @JohnSwinney apologised. But where are the apologies from those who so confidently vilified these girls?
I've spent decades working with people whom respectable society finds easy to dismiss. I know how quickly prejudice can masquerade as moral superiority.
What disturbed me most was watching people who endlessly preach compassion, equality and protecting the vulnerable apparently abandon those principles when the victims didn't fit their preferred political narrative.
I lost respect for people over this. Not because they initially got the facts wrong, but because of how eagerly they embraced a narrative that suited their prejudices. Some of these very people have built entire careers on claiming to speak for and defend the working class. Yet when confronted with vulnerable working-class girls who didn't fit their preferred political narrative, their much-vaunted compassion seemed to evaporate. It was a deeply revealing moment. I learned rather more about their prejudices than I ever did from their lectures about mine.
If your compassion depends on someone's nationality, class, accent or political usefulness, it isn't compassion. It's prejudice dressed up as principle.
These were children. Working-class girls who deserved protection, not public vilification.
And if we've reached the point where protecting a political narrative matters more than protecting children, something has gone very badly wrong.
Shame on those who condemned them. And shame on those who still cannot bring themselves to admit they were wrong.
The whole "everyone is English" rhetoric coming from the left and the centrists seems to me to whittle down to a very specific point.
The people standing against the idea that the English are an ethnic group and therefore are White, appear to be driven, as usual, by one underlying cause.
They cannot allow White people to have something positive that others cannot have.
Everyone else gets to have their own communities and leaders, they get to have their own cultural practices that go against our laws and societal norms, their own languages and their own specific protections. They even get their own awards, history months, DEI allocations, jobs and university places/funding.
We don't get any of that, we have to share literally everything with literally everyone. And the things we hold dear are degraded and perverted while theirs are held as sacred. Our own history written in modern times often comes with a negative stance towards us, yet they will never have a negative word written about them.
This is just my opinion, but I can't think of a single positive thing that White people are allowed to have that others are excluded from.
We aren't even allowed to have our own ethnic groups and be recognised as a unique and special people in our own homeland.
Because this is what they genuinely fear.
@Oxladesoup88 You’re now on day 14 of post-humiliation… the “find anything else to talk about, please… anything” phase.
And it’s absolutely delightful 😂😂😂
@Benleo@ThePosieParker God bless you, Ben.
We’re all happy you’re sticking up for the truth and for the British people, but it’s awful to hear the price you have to pay.
Disgusted in the police. Absolutely shameful.
But never forget you have an army of decent British people behind you.
@StyoorT@andymuirhd@andymuirhd deleted the tweet after many of his own side pointed out it sounded like the work of a troubled beast. He uses some mental gymnastics to pretend “an uncle feeling up his niece” isn’t relating to an act of CSA.
Everyone knows what he is.
And he knows we know.
@andymuirhd The best thing is you posting all this stuff every ten minutes when we know - and you know that we know - you’re actually miserable and constantly thinking about how good Rangers are right now compared to your poor, poor football club.
@Alan_Morrison67@PNelson57313 You’re trying too hard, Tesco.
Absolutely no way anyone at Celtic was involved.
I mean, why on earth would anyone think that?
😂😂😂