Links - 10th January 2025 (2 [including 'Expertise'])

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD on X - "I love twitter bc where else can I, an person with two graduate degrees from Harvard in both infectious disease epidemiology and biostatistics, be assured I am wrong about infectious disease epi and statistics by a software engineer who has “read multiple FDA package inserts”"
Benjamin Ryan on X - "have not taken a science class since high school and there is literally a peer-reviewed paper that proved I was the most accurate person tweeting about monkeypox by far, while most of the MDs and PhDs who were tweeting about it were the most inaccurate. Let’s be serious here people: Generally, of course, people with doctorates in scientific topics know more than most people about science. However, it never ceases to astound me how people with such doctorates so often check their education at the door and freely make scientific claims that are wildly inaccurate. All the worse, they cynically hold up their doctorate as a shield against fair and honest criticism of their intellectual folly. This gives scholarship and academia a bad name and it erodes trust in the sciences.  We need such trust. But how can we maintain it when there is so much dishonesty and sometimes outright fraud in the sciences?"
Trust the Experts - even when they are more wrong than non-Experts - because they push the left wing agenda

Meme - Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil: "Among health "experts" who tweeted about Monkeypox, there was a dramatic tendency to get basic facts wrong.  For example, many claimed risk wasn't especially heightened among gay men.  PhDs were among the worst misinformation spreaders."
"Total Number of Tweets by Author Occupation or Degree. Health Care. Health Reporter. PhD, MPH, Other Ed. JD Total. Number of Tweets. Accurate/ Appropriate Inaccurate/ Exaggerated"

Benjamin Ryan on X - "This paper represents one of my proudest accomplishments. I was at home sick from chemo all summer, going to war with the MD/PhD monkeypox misinformation hounds. The reason the health reporters were the most accurate tweeters about mpox on balance was because of me."

Devon Eriksen on X - "They just can't stop, can they?   They are so bloody proud of their degrees that they simply cannot shut the fuck up about them and make a case for their actual point, using the knowledge they are so quick to boast of.   They just stomp their little feet, shake their tiny fists, and demand that you accept their every pronouncement based solely on some sort of obligation to have total faith in the institution which certified them.   These people seem to have all been sick the day their scientific education taught the class what science actually is.
Science is not a religion.  Science is not an institution.  Science is not a profession.  Science is not a body of data.  Science is not a model of the universe.   Science is an algorithm.  Science is a procedure.
And the whole point of this procedure, the whole fucking point of the whole goddamned business, is to produce a result which is indicative, replicable, verifiable, and understandable.   Truth does not come from scientists.   Truth comes from scientific results.   Scientific results come from research.   A scientist is simply a person who is paid to do research.   Their job is not to learn a whole bunch of stuff, and then become the Oracle of Delphi, roaming the landscape making pronouncements from their expertise, which must be regarded as scientific truth.  Only scientific results are indicators of truth.
The opinion of a scientist is not a scientific result.   The opinion of a scientist is a hypothesis.   A hypothesis must be tested in a properly conducted experiment, which must then be independently replicated, to be acceptable as truth.
This also goes for what they call a "scientific consensus", which is just the opinion of a bunch of scientists.  Therefore, if a scientist expects you to accept their pronouncements as truth because their expertise, they are trying to pull a fast one.   The two questions at issue here are:
1. Whether the mRNA covid treatment is safe and non-toxic.
2. Whether the mRNA covid treatment is effective at preventing covid infection.
Ellie has an opinion on this.   That opinion is a hypothesis.   Not a fact.   In order to establish a fact, an experiment would have to be done.  And then the experimental results would  have to be replicated by someone else, somewhere else. And then the experimental results would have to be shown to the public.   And not, say, for example, locked in a airtight vault, guarded by trained attack panthers, for 70 years.   Now, we could spend a lot of time arguing about how meaningful it is, or isn't, that the mRNA treatment was misleadingly called a vaccine, that it was used as a tool of political power, that the same people telling you it was safe and effective made it illegal for you to sue the manufacturers if it wasn't.   But all of that is irrelevant, because none of those arguments are necessary.   The burden of proof is on those who make demands like "take this injection". Therefore the treatment is unsafe until it is proven safe. And the treatment is ineffective until it is proven effective.   And no amount of scientists' opinions will prove that.   Only evidence will prove that.   And if they won't show it to you, it's not evidence. Because the word "evidence" means "that which is seen". So that which is unseen is not evidence.   And if Ellie can get a doctorate from Harvard without understanding the basic nature of how science works, then Harvard doesn't deserve your trust anymore, and there is no Harvard.   Only Zuul."

Bonn! on X - "We are like this because Congress ceded its power to the executive. That’s it. When Congress decides to do its job again, we will all be in a better place."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "This is an extraordinarily key point. The executive branch of the US government began with the bluntly titled Departments of War, Treasury, and State/Peace.  There are now 15 (?) Cabinet-level executive Departments, and hundreds of executive agencies (EPA, FDA, DEA, etc) overseeing things like the "wetlands" at the bottom of your back garden.   Congress, which has 535 members with staffs of 10+, and was supposed to largely run the country, does very little. We should change that."

Eric S. Raymond on X - "Okay, let me tell you how I became persuaded that evolutionary psychology is more than just a collection of just-so stories.  The anthology that launched the field was titled "The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture".  One of the papers in this anthology started from a folk theorem from before evo-psych was a thing. It's the one that goes: androgenized brains are good at 3D kinematics because in hunter-gatherer societies men were selected for the ability to chuck a spears at a mammoth and actually hit it.  The authors of this paper said, OK, you could call this a just-so story. But if we take seriously the idea that sex differentiation could lead to differences in visual processing that are predictable from sex roles in hunter-gatherer societies, then we ought to be able to think of some sort of visual talent that was much more useful for women than for men in the environment of ancestral adaptation. And then we ought to be able to test for that talent and observe that, in fact women average much better at it than men do. It wasn't hard to think up one. Visual memory for fine detail, especially color detail. Because if you're going to feed your kids by gathering berries, you better be able to tell the ripe ones from the unripe ones. Etcetera.  This suggested a test that it turned out had never been done before. Take a large population of men and women, and give them a test for visual detail memory. So they did this.  And it turned out this is something women are on average much, *much* better than men at. The difference in means was not small, it was what-the-fuck large.This is exactly what a generative theory is supposed to do. Not just explain the observations you already have, but generate testable predictions about experiments you haven't done yet.   It is also worthy of some note that another paper in that anthology, on food-sharing strategies in monkey bands, planted in my head the idea that altruistic sharing behaviors can evolve as a hedge against high-variance-gambles.  Some years later this would be one of the key insights that I needed to understand the psychology and economics of open-source development."

I thought it was common sense not to set off fireworks at 3am while people are sleeping. Diwali is becoming Canada’s night of hell. : r/Canada_sub
The only people whose illegal fireworks you're allowed to slam are white people

Why was this post locked for comments? : r/Markham - "Fuck Andrew Keyes..  This is clearly using mental illness to get out of a shit situation and this fuck Andrew is buying into it as a councilor?  Like fuck this guy and the woman who got caught.  They are diminishing people who have actual mental illness."
"Honestly it is difficult to believe someone with a mental illness who just happen to realize its Halloween and is smart enough to target only houses with porch candy and has the self consciousness to flee in a bike.  We cant just have shoplifters and car thieves claiming mental illness when caught."
"I said this on another post but the 5 teens who stole the Ferrari in Markham are going to say they have mental health issues which made them commit the crime?  Mental health issues are a crutch nowadays and anyone who gets caught is now “oh I have mental health issues”  Yeah she’s definitely mentally unstable to take that much candy and lights and if she did 1-2 houses sure maybe we could say it was a one off but to raid 4 houses is a bit much and apparently she did more than 4"
Mental illness is a get out of jail free card for stealing candy and Halloween decorations. Amusingly some people claimed that the fact that she went back the next day to harass her victims shows that she must be mentally ill. Clearly shitty people don't exist.
Oddly, the politicians were covering for her for some reason (and blocking people who called them out).

Why was this post locked for comments? : r/Markham - "Are we supposed to believe every idiot that stole Halloween treats and decorations has a mental disorder?"
"Ive suffered from some debilitating mental health issues in my life, as im sure others have too, but ive never had the urge to ravage an entire neighborhood of Halloween candy."
"The lady is making a mockery of mental illness. If you have seen the videos and haven't come to the same conclusion, then sorry, you can't be helped."

Public statement from the family of the Cornell Halloween incident - Posted by Ward 7 Councillor Juanita Nathan : r/Markham - "Strange seeing politicians get involved with this. Not sure if I’ve ever seen this before."
"Never had any local politicians care for any of my family's grievances in the 30+ years living here"
"Likewise. It does look suspicious. Large donor??"

Meme - "Today my psych professor said, "You'll never truly know someone well enough to marry until you've seen them struggle financially, grieve a lost one, or witness them while they’re sick.” And that just hit really deep."
"Truly amazing advice."
"First date ideas: freeze their assets, kill one of their loved ones, poison their fucking dinner"

Meme - "This is what $195 worth of groceries look like. It's ridiculous *groceries and 7" Cock with Balls*"

Simon Holland on X - "I want my 13 year old to understand how important honesty is but also know that she is 12 when kids eat free."

Meme - "EVER WONDER WHERE PEOPLE GOT THEIR SURNAMES FROM?
Mr. Baker was probably a baker. Mr. Butcher might have been a butcher. And then there's Mr. Dickinson.."

☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 Ƒʉͫcͧкͭιͪηͣ 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎ on X - "Subject: Bullying. That kid you just called gay? He likes a dick in his ass. That girl you just called a fatass? Weighs 400 pounds. And counting. That girl you just called a slut? She fucked the entire football team. That man you just called retarded? He repeated 2nd grade 5 times.  And voted for Biden.  Sometimes you're right. 🤷🏻‍♀️"

Meme - "Venom: The Last Dance
39%. 67 Reviews. Tomatometer
Shut it off, sony! Shut it off!
The next one will work, I promise."

American Airlines fined $15,000 after worker was sucked into plane engine - "American Eagle, a subsidiary of American Airlines, is being fined a little more than $15,000 after a fatal accident where a worker was sucked into an aircraft engine at Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama. Courtney Edwards, 34, was a ground agent who worked for Piedmont Airlines... The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a preliminary report noting that Edwards failed to comply with multiple instructions to stay back from the airplane before the engines were shut down... The ground crew told investigators that they had two meetings about safety before the plane landed, and all workers knew the engines would remain on until ground power cables were connected since the airplane did not have auxiliary power on board. One worker reported that it was “discussed that the airplane should not be approached” until the airplane’s rotating beacon light shut off, indicating that it was safe to approach. The video pulled by the NTSB showed that “throughout the course of the accident, the airplane’s upper rotating beacon light appeared to be illuminated.”  The NTSB report cites the American Eagle Ground Operations Manual which instructs workers to not approach the front of a running jet engine and to keep a safe distance of at least 15 feet from what is termed the “ingestion zone.” The manual states, “Jet engines spin with powerful speed and are extremely dangerous until spooled down. The area in front of the engine is called the ingestion zone. The ingestion zone for all aircraft types is 15 feet. You must never enter the ingestion zone until the engine has spooled down.”... The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union, of which Edwards was a member, said in a statement that “it is likely that Piedmont will contest the decision, but CWA will continue to fight for Courtney Edwards, her family, and the safety of all airline workers, who should never fear for their lives on the job.” What exactly the union proposes to do fight, however, the CWA bureaucracy did not explain."
If they hadn't let her work because of her dangerous actions, that'd have been racism and the penalty would've been even higher
Naturally, the company is at fault according to the socialists, because idiot workers are never to blame

Rolf Degen on X - "All over the world, people with nice personality traits like it a tad sweeter. https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656624000953 Research has shown that a preference for sweet foods is associated with trait agreeableness. For example, in several, but not all studies, people higher in trait agreeableness also score higher in their tendency to prefer sweet foods or sweet tastes in general. These findings suggest that in general, people who are more agreeable also tend to have a higher preference for sweet foods and tastes. We examined the replicability and cross-cultural consistency of this effect in four samples from different countries (China, Germany, Mexico, & the U.S.). We found that agreeableness was significantly and positively correlated with two different measures of sweet taste preferences in all four samples with small effect sizes. The association between agreeableness and the preference for a sweet taste coincides with terms sometimes used to describe kind and nice people as well as people we love in some cultures (e.g., “sweet”, “sweetie”, or “honey”). Therefore, if people understand that sweetness and niceness are linked via metaphor, and people believe they are either nice or like sweet foods, people might seek consistency by viewing the self as one who is nice and likes sweet foods. People may resonate with experiences that “fit” their personalities. The association between agreeableness and a sweet taste preference appears replicable and occurring across cultures at least in the samples studied."
Women like sweet things too, which is telling

Minimal: Taiwan has the world’s only Michelin-starred ice cream shop - "Minimal, in the city of Taichung, is the world’s first and only ice cream establishment to receive a Michelin star...  On the ground floor is a takeaway ice cream shop offering six whimsical flavors that are continuously updated. Recent options include biluochun (a type of green tea) with sugarcane and an herb called Angelica morii, as well as pine needles with Camellia seed oil and green Taiwanese herbs.  The 20-seater restaurant on the second floor serves a seven-course set menu that plays with food at different, mostly sub-zero, temperatures. The structure of the menu changes little throughout the year but the ingredients and themes shift according to seasons...  Despite becoming a connoisseur, Wan says he’s far from picky when it comes to ice cream.  “I still eat ice cream almost every day. Most of the time, I eat really cheap ice treats like qing bing (a retro dessert made of water and banana flavoring served as shaved ice or in popsicle form). They’re a no-brainer for me,” says Wan."

Poilievre slams Remembrance ceremonies hijacked by 'woke' politics - "In Kingston, Ont., a ceremony at the Murney Tower National Historic Site was conducted within view of a line of about a dozen anti-Israel demonstrators holding “Free Palestine” signage. “Against war, fascism, colonialism and imperialism at home & abroad,” read one.  The official City of Toronto ceremony earned condemnation from former top soldier Rick Hillier for opening proceedings with an extended land acknowledgement that included a condemnation of the Atlantic slave trade.  “We are nothing but ‘sheep’ to put up with this condescending lecture at any time, but especially today. A day devoted to those who served and sacrificed to build a country that doesn’t have that,” wrote Hillier in a social media post... Indigenous land acknowledgements are standard protocol at most Canadian civic events, including Remembrance Day ceremonies. The largest ceremony in Calgary, for instance, had emcee Linda Olsen name the constituent First Nations of Treaty 7, whose lands cover most of Southern Alberta.  Where Toronto’s differed is in naming non-Indigenous attendees as “settlers” or “migrants” — and in mentioning slavery. The latter issue being particularly unusual given that all of the soldiers honoured by Remembrance Day fought for a country that had no institutional legacy of slavery. Slavery had been illegal in British North American since 1833 — 34 years before the formation of the Dominion of Canada. In Mississauga, Remembrance Day iconography was also co-opted for a planned public vigil for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the central architect of the October 7 massacres in Southern Israel.  Firas Al Najim, head of the group Canadian Defenders 4 Human Rights, covered literature for the vigil with Remembrance Day poppies. And in a video shot in front of a Royal Canadian Legion branch, Al Najim compared remembrance of the terrorist leader (whom he called a “great hero”) to remembrance of fallen Canadian soldiers... This all comes amidst official efforts to remove Christian prayers from official Remembrance Day ceremonies on the grounds that they’re divisive."

YorkU and UTM lecturer shouts “F&*$ you!” to veterans on Remembrance Day - "A York University PhD student and lecturer at York University and formerly at the University of Toronto Mississauga recorded herself shouting “F&$# you” to Canadian veterans during a Remembrance Day procession on Monday.  In a video shared online to her Instagram account, which has since been made private, Aaliya Khan is heard cursing at the procession of fallen Canadian troops. She said, “Oops, this is Nov. 11,” and another person in the vehicle was heard saying, “I know F&%selection% them.” As documented by X user “Leviathan,” Khan’s additional posts include calling Canada an “occupation of Turtle Island” and for an end to the Canadian government.   “It’s Remembrance Day, so I urge you to think about the Canadian military’s historical and ongoing complicity in the genocide and occupation of Turtle Island as well as the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq,” Khan said on her now-deleted account on X. “All empires will fall, including this one inshallah #landback.”  Before Khan deleted her X account, True North’s Harrison Faulkner documented a response from Khan where she doubled down on her hate for Canada’s armed and police forces.  “This is so funny, bro. Who’s keeping tabs on me?” Khan said in the post. “F&$% the military and F$&# the police for real.” Khan also shared posts saying “New York for Hezbollah,” a listed terrorist entity, and quoted the terror group’s recently eliminated leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Nasrallah famously called for Jews to be hunted and killed worldwide.  Khan also posted an image of a Toyota pickup truck that had been customized with a machine gun turret on the back with the caption “for regime changes.”  According to “Stop Antisemitism,” Khan also recently posted “Death to the police” on her now-deleted Instagram page, support for Hamas and Houthis in fighting Israel “by any means necessary.”   Khan’s posts also used symbols associated with the terrorist group Hamas and expressed her love and gratitude for the listed terrorist entity multiple times."

Ontario school played Palestinian protest song as Remembrance Day music - "An Ottawa school played an Arabic-language Palestinian protest song associated with fighting in Gaza as the soundtrack to its Remembrance Day presentation, causing outrage and distress for some students and parents. The song was the sole musical accompaniment to a slide show of Canadian soldiers and words about peace shown at three Remembrance Day ceremonies for different age groups at Sir Robert Borden school on Monday, according to students and parents. The musical selection was distracting and distressing to some in the audience, particularly Jewish students, some of whom complained to the principal afterwards.  Principal Aaron Hobbs defended the selection during one of those meetings, saying it was chosen to bring diversity and inclusion to Remembrance Day that is usually only about “a white guy who has done something related to the military.”  Hours later, after Hobbs had “a closed-door meeting,” staff said when National Post tried to contact him, he sent an email to the school community apologizing.  “It has come to my attention that the inclusion of the song ‘Haza Salam’ in the program caused significant distress to some members of our school community. For this, I would like to offer my apologies,” Hobbs said in the letter... Several parents and students who spoke to National Post said they could hardly believe what song was selected for the school assemblies for students from grade seven to 12.  “It is hard to believe I’m hearing this at an assembly in Canada for Remembrance Day,” said a student who asked their name not be published, not out of fear of the administration but from other students... Several students used a phone app to identify the song and it took them to music platforms featuring artwork of Palestinian protests and additional songs by the artist that seem less focussed on peace, the students said.  The song was Haza Salam by Mahim Ahmed, according to the students.  The title is often translated into English as “This is Peace” and it appears to have been released less than two months after the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks on Israel by Hamas... Article content  “There was only one song. There were no other ethnic songs, or other songs, just one. It was played three times,” said a parent of a student at the school who asked not to be named.  “They chose an Arabic song about peace for Gaza as the only song to play for a Remembrance Day service.”... Another parent, who is Jewish, said the song is one in a long line of similar incidents at the school that make Jewish students uncomfortable or fearful. Article content  “No one would allow a song in Hebrew to be played, even if it was called Shalom, at a Canadian Remembrance Day ceremony. It should have been a song in English or French or an Indigenous language. How did Arabic become an official language of Canada? “Something is wrong at the top,” said the parent, who asked not to be named publicly for the sake of their child. Although Hobbs disagreed the song was problematic at a meeting he had with several students, he later changed his message... Lisa MacLeod, member of provincial parliament for the riding of Nepean, where Sir Robert Borden school is just a kilometre down the road from her constituency office, decried the school’s assembly.  She said using the song did not follow the Royal Canadian Legion protocols and was distressing to Jewish students.  MacLeod said she spoke with the school board’s director, Pino Buffone, and “shared my anger, disappointment and, honestly, utter confusion on how Remembrance Day at a school whose namesake was Prime Minister in World War One could get this so wrong.”"

Ottawa principal apologizes for playing Arabic song during Remembrance Day ceremony : r/nottheonion - "Progressives when literally any marginalized group except for Jews are offended by something: "It doesn't matter if the speaker says they did not mean what they said in an offensive way. Marginalized people were offended, therefore it was offensive, period."  Progressives when Jews are offended by something: "It doesn't matter if Jews were offended. The speaker says they did not mean what they said in an offensive way, therefore it was not offensive, period."  The double standard is so fucking disgusting."
Ottawa principal apologizes for playing Arabic song during Remembrance Day ceremony : r/nottheonion - "And then in the next breath they’ll talk about how the Star of David is triggering to Muslims and a hate symbol.  Never mind the Star of David predates the founding of Islam"
"Throwback to the time when leftists held an "intersectional" LGBT march that explicitly encouraged participants to celebrate their "intersectional" identities as marginalized people, and then some Jews showed up and were immediately kicked out for "making other participants" feel unsafe by displaying Jewish symbols.  Chicago gay pride parade expels Star of David flags.  Please note that Palestinians symbols were openly welcomed at this "inclusive" event whereas Jewish symbols were banned."
Ottawa principal apologizes for playing Arabic song during Remembrance Day ceremony : r/nottheonion - "More so than the Principal’s stupid response, or his statement about how Rememberance Day is usually just “white guys that did something”   The most absurd part is the Arab/Muslim organizations that are acting like victims and just incapable of understanding why the ONLY song being played at a Remembrance Day ceremony in Canada being an Arabic song about the Gaza war is inappropriate"
"I mean that's kind of their go-to, no? They start shit, get clapped back then whine and cry they are victimized."
"You forgot the critical step of “accusing Jews of distorting the Holocaust to make themselves the victim”   The hypocrisy truly knows no limits"

Tipped over: social influence “tipping point” theory debunked - "Clive Thompson has been getting some well-deserved attention for his recent Fast Company piece, in which Columbia University sociologist Duncan Watts explodes the hierarchical theory of social influence and trend propagation popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in the bestselling book The Tipping Point.  Gladwell's model, which has itself become something of a cultural epidemic, posits that a few hyperconnected "influentials" are the key to the runaway viral spread of fads, fashions, ideas, and behaviors.  These pivotal individuals, according to Gladwell, determine which trends will wither on the vine and which will "tip," becoming mass phenomena. But Watts, a pioneer in the mathematical modeling of social networks, has tested the "tipping point" hypothesis, both empirically and in computer simulations.  As it turns out, according to Watts, it's just not true.  There are exceptionally well-connected folks out there, but they're so swamped by ordinary individuals that they can't account for genuine cultural cascades, which result not primarily from the activity of social "hubs" kick-starting trends and broadcasting them to the masses, but average Joes and Janes passing them on to other average Joes and Janes.   In a way, the best vindication of Watts' critique is that, despite being "precisely the type of person you'd peg as an Influential," his objections have taken so long to gain traction.  He has, after all, been raising them for quite some time.  When I interviewed Watts back in 2004, he dismissed Gladwell's theory: "We knew 50 years ago that this model was wrong."
Another Malcolm Gladwell myth debunked

Rates of Sexual Offending: Men, Women and Transwomen

Left wingers were very upset about this meme about transwomen's astronomical sexual offending rates because they could not read and/or were upset that reality has a known trainphobic bias:

i/o on X

"Sex offending rate of women: 3 per one million
Sex offending rate of men: 395 per million
Sex offending rates of transwomen: 1,916 per million"

So I decided to do all the calculations to spoonfeed them with all the sources and steps provided, so they would have to find new copes to dismiss this reality.

Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament

"On current offences, in the men’s estate, there were 87 transgender women with a conviction for at least one sexual offence. In the women’s estate, the number of transgender women with a conviction for at least one sexual offence was fewer than 5"

So this is where the original graphic comes up with the number of 92 incarcerated transwoman sex offenders. If you want to be picky, we can use 0 transgender women with a conviction for at least one sexual offence since "fewer than 5" is imprecise, but that won't change the qualitative findings (I will calculate this as well for pedants)

Now for the denominator.

In the England and Wales Census 2021, there were 48,000 who identified as trans women. So that's where we get 92 out of 48,000. And from there, simple multiplication gets us to 1,916 sex offenders per million transwomen.

If we use the figure of 87 from above, we have 1,812 sex offenders per million transwomen, which isn't appreciably lower in terms of magnitude vs the male and female numbers.

For completeness, I shall show the calculations for men and women too.

If you refer to Prison population: 30 June 2021 (linked from Offender Management statistics quarterly: January to March 2021 - GOV.UK), in Table 1.2b, Prison population under an immediate custodial sentence by offence group, age group and sex, you will see that as of 30 Jun 2021, there were 11,660 males in for seuxal offences, and 119 females (the meme is slightly off, but that doesn't change the qualitative conclusions).

In the 2021 census, there were 30.4 million women and girls in England and Wales, and 29.2 million.

So the female sexual offending rate was 119/30.4 million or 3.9 per million and the male sexual offending rate was 11,660/29.2 million or 399 per million, which is almost the same as the numbers in the meme (the meme maker, who I assume was i/o @eyeslasho, might have been using a different table of column that I was unable to reconcile with my numbers at midnight while I was writing this post, but that is like a rounding error).

Tellingly, in New Zealand, Scotland and Queensland Australia, transwomen are similarly overrepresented in sexual offences.

Of course, the most prolific left winger in that thread had already proclaimed that "politicians" couldn't be trusted when what they said hurt the left wing agenda, so we know he was just trying to troll and piss people off with the common left wing of tactic of demanding a source, then dismissing it when it is inconvenient (all the while claiming other people have failed logic, lying that he checked out the real figures and they didn't match the meme and challenging others to look at the sources for themselves), but for everyone else who wants to know how the numbers above were derived, I hope this helps.

Related, previous work I did on a similar overrepresentation of trans people being rapists compared to the general population: Transgender offending vs victimisation.

Links - 10th January 2025 (1 - Donald Trump)

nature on X - "The risks of a second Trump presidency continue to mount"
Crémieux on X - "Nature still has not learned that endorsing political candidates tangibly harms science as an enterprise while providing them, the public, and their preferred candidates with no benefits whatsoever."
Crémieux on X - "Shortly after Nature did this the first time, Nature Human Behavior published evidence it was a bad idea:"
Crémieux on X - "When Nature endorsed Biden, exposed Trump supporters said they had less trust that Nature was impartial. That's good. When outlets become political, they're indicating they are partial and shouldn't be trusted."
If you don't trust "Science", you're ignorant and should be ignored

Melissa Chen on X - "The press has lost its monopoly on manufacturing reality.   For years we were sold a one-dimensional image of Jared Kushner as this spoilt brat son-in-law of the President, but one long sit down with @lexfridman  revealed an articulate, competent man who pursued his singular task - culminating in the Abraham Accords - with thoughtfulness.   It’s the same with that @JDVance  interview with @joerogan  and when he went on all-in pod with @jason  & @DavidSacks .  The media had painted Vance as a weird and creepy hillbilly poser whose elite credentials betray his tough Appalachian upbringing, and produced reams of race-baiting analysis of his interracial marriage.   With these interviews, he has come off as a clear-thinking, razor-sharp thinker who is a voice for many of the class issues our elites have been so willfully blind to.   Americans no longer are restricted to politically motivated content masquerading as straight factual reporting.   Legacy media is seeing their power slip away and if the blue stack is back in charge, they will try to erode the “alternative” media ecosystem. They’ve already tried with manipulation of Google and YouTube search.   So to all who were saying these were “just podcasters - what do these people actually do?” I hope you recognize the role they’re playing and how the ecosystem they built has an outsized impact on our politics and our democracy."

Democrats Debate Impact Of Donald Trump's Anti-Transgender Attacks On Presidential Race - "Republican ads suggesting Vice President Kamala Harris cared more about promoting transgender rights than boosting the economy likely contributed to Donald Trump’s victory, according to a new survey conducted after Tuesday’s election.  Another poll released this week by a different Democratic firm found, however, that hardly any voters were motivated by opposition to transgender surgeries or what Republicans derisively call “boys in girls sports.”  The conflicting surveys, with clashing but not totally contradictory findings, illustrate the tricky post-election analysis Democrats will need to conduct as they chart a course out of the political wilderness.  On Friday, the Democratic polling firm Blueprint released survey findings that suggest anti-trans ads hurt Harris. Blueprint asked voters to rank 25 statements about why they picked Trump instead of Harris. The two most popular reasons were that inflation was too high under the Biden administration and that too many immigrants illegally crossed the border. The third-most popular statement was that “Kamala Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class.” Among swing voters who broke for Trump, the “transgender issues” criticism was the most popular reason, Blueprint found... The exit polls from Fox News and the Associated Press, for instance, found voters basically split on banning gender-affirming care for children: 47% supported the idea but 52% opposed it.  A more vaguely-worded question found 54% of voters thought “support for transgender rights in government and society” had gone too far, while 22% thought it was just right and 22% said it had not gone far enough... moderate Democratic lawmakers have already pointed to trans issue as a reason Harris lost.  “I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) told The New York Times following the election — prompting a rebuke from one of his campaign aides, who resigned in protest.  Rep. Tom Suozzi, a moderate Long Island Democrat who flipped a GOP seat in a February special election, made a similar comment. And Gilberto Hinojosa, chair of the Texas Democratic Party, told KUT, a local Austin, Texas, outlet on Wednesday that Democrats might consider disavowing the use of taxpayer dollars for transition care. His comments prompted immediate criticism from LGBTQ+ groups in Texas, leading him first to apologize and then, on Friday, to resign, though he claimed he was simply making room for a new generation"
Because trans mania was not one of the most important issues to most voters, it means it didn't matter. Brilliant

Democracy nearly dead after US president elected by way of both electoral and popular vote. : r/babylonbee - "Political and historical experts agree. Electing a president by voting is exactly how democracy dies in darkness."

Blue-state governors form ‘non-partisan’ team to battle Trump admin - "Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Colorado Governor Jared Polis unveiled a so-called “nonpartisan” state-level initiative designed to strengthen government institutions and defend against "threats to democracy” around a week after President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election.   The “nonpartisan” Governors Safeguarding Democracy will be headed by the two Democratic governors. According to its website, the group will "leverage the collective strength, experience, and institutional knowledge in governors' offices across the country to craft laws and policies that protect the rule of law and serve the people of our great states.""
"Democracy" is the left wing agenda. Rule of law is when courts push the left wing agenda, which is why the left was so upset by the Roe v Wade repeal

Erin Adair on X - "The GROWN ADULTS going into absolute hysterics, filming their deranged, paranoia fueled meltdowns, POSTING them, & calling off work today are the same people who think they’re more intelligent than you. In what world should adults who behave this way be calling the shots?"

Trump 2.0 will force us to solve important problems - "Everyone is talking about the serious challenges Donald Trump poses to this country on a host of issues: trade, defence, the border, taxes, foreign policy. But, paradoxically, Trump’s election presents a significant opportunity for Canadians to enhance their prosperity and security by finally dealing with several pressing domestic problems we have been ducking. There is faint hope Justin Trudeau will change his failed policies at this late stage but Pierre Poilievre could seize this historic opportunity when, as seems likely, he becomes prime minister sometime in the next 11 months. A constructive relationship between president and prime minister always helps protect Canada’s national interests, but it seems crucial in this case. Trump does not take kindly to disparagement and he responds positively to friendship and flattery. It’s not always an easy balancing act. Canadians don’t like signs of subservience to the U.S. president. Brian Mulroney’s remarkably productive friendship with Ronald Reagan elicited partisan criticism for the two’s “cloying” rendition of “When Irish Eyes are Smiling” at the Shamrock Summit in Quebec City on St. Patrick’s Day, 1985. On the other hand, it’s not always rocket science. Repeatedly demonizing Poilievre as “Trump-like” would hardly make Canada-U.S. negotiations easier even if Trudeau deludes himself into thinking it could help him win a fourth term in office. Trump is clearly transactional, but it would be a major mistake to think that is all he is. Deeply held principles underlie his policies regarding American exceptionalism, the economy, the border, immigration, crime, the free enterprise system and traditional values. He will always put America first and is suspicious both of foreign commitments of blood and treasure and of friends or opponents taking advantage of his country. He abhors identity politics, DEI and critical race theory, which he believes are socially divisive, denigrate American history and fail basic tests of common sense. He believes climate change initiatives are wasteful and useless and weaken the U.S. in its competition with rivals and foes. Some Trump pressure will actually be in our interests, starting with his insistence that we meet our NATO commitment of spending two per cent of GDP on our military. As a matter of national honour and to protect our sovereignty, we need to stop being a defence free rider. Doing so diminishes our global standing and undermines our security, especially in the Arctic. And we invest so little in our troops we can no longer act a peacekeeper nation, even if that’s how we still think of ourselves. Trump will keep U.S. taxes low and may even lower them further, putting competitive pressure on us. We need to respond by lowering our own personal and corporate taxes. Doing so will enable us to attract and retain capital, which will help with affordability, competitiveness and productivity, whose recent slow growth has GDP per capita deadlining. Trump’s nominee for energy secretary — Chris Wright, a climate skeptic — will further isolate Canada in its climate catastrophism. Wright, who has called net zero a “sinister goal,” was briefly censored by LinkedIn for posting a video in which he said, “There is no climate crisis and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.” U.S. policies will favour fracking, abandonment of green subsidies and approval of new resource projects, including Keystone XL. In this radically new environment, we could free ourselves from costly and ineffective climate obsession, create jobs, generate economic growth and the revenue it brings in for social programs, and in partnership with the U.S. enhance our energy security. Trump’s point man on trade, Robert Lighthizer, who negotiated the USMCA, has written of Canada that for years we have “operated a dairy supply chain management program that would make a Soviet commissar blush.” Supply management may be good politics but it is bad policy. It endears you to several thousand Quebec and Ontario dairy farmers but it raises the price of milk, cheese, eggs and poultry, hurting the poor, narrowing consumer choice, preventing farmers from developing export markets and weakening our bargaining power in trade negotiations. We should resist for show, but ultimately yield on this and other irritants. In the negotiations that are coming, we can leverage our oil, gas and minerals, including rare earths, which bring us real strength in the relationship. Our energy wealth enhances American national security because we are politically stable, enable the U.S. to export more of its own oil and gas and help guarantee North American energy self-sufficiency over the longer term. A few final points: We need to secure our border so there is no leakage to the U.S., especially of criminals and terrorists. We are outnumbered by American specialists, so we should bring in expertise as needed. We should make common cause on geopolitical issues and be more consistent and helpful to our allies, the U.S. included. Finally, at all costs, we need to avoid hectoring and virtue-signalling."

Trump biopic star says that other actors have begun to distance themselves from him - "The Apprenctice star, Sebastian Stan, has admitted that other actors have been afraid to do appearances with him as they didn’t want to discuss Donald Trump... “You know, I’ve got to do a lot of great things, and that’s not pointing at anyone specific. It was… we couldn’t get past the publicists or the people representing them, because [they were] too afraid to talk about this movie.” “And it’s like, that’s when I think we lose the situation,” he continued. “Because if it really becomes like that - fear or that discomfort to talk about this - then we’re really going to have a problem.” "For many, the idea that Trump is the same as any one of us is a really difficult thing to deal with at the moment and I understand the emotions are very high, but I think that’s the only way you’re going to grasp this film,” said Stan. “If all it’s saying is you cannot keep casting this person aside, especially after they get the popular vote, should we not give this a closer look and try to understand what it is about this person that’s even driving that?”"

Eva Longoria Is Done Living in Donald Trump’s America
Eva Longoria clarifies reason why she moved out of the United States - "“Will you please let them know I didn’t move out of the United States because of Trump?” Longoria asked Navarro on the podcast. “I’ve been in Europe for almost three years.” She clarified that she left the U.S. because of work, adding: “I didn’t leave because of the political environment. I left because my work took me there.” While the Texas native admitted that living outside the U.S. allows her some distance from “the constant 24-hour news cycle,” she claimed speculation that she had relocated because of American politics was “divisive.”"
Damn fascist, criticising the media!

D.C. residents want Airbnb blackout for Trump inauguration and beg owners not to rent to Republicans - "Some Washington, D.C. residents are taking their Airbnbs off the market for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in protest. Residents are calling on Airbnb hosts to either blackout the dates around Trump’s inauguration or increase the prices and donate the proceeds to liberal causes... The blackout will “show Trump supporters who are coming into the DMV that we do not welcome hate, misogyny, or intentions to take over D.C.,” Kane’s letter reads. Kane told the Post she wants to “try to make any kind of difference that we can in the situation we find ourselves in as D.C. residents and just as human beings right now.”"
Clearly, these people are against "hate"

Scott Adams on X - "Lol, I didn't know Trump threatened to reveal the Mexican government's cartel connections unless they do what he wants on the border.  And he threatened massive tariffs.  And he threatened to send in Special Forces to get the cartels.  So...it looks like Mexico is planning to be extra helpful on the border. . . and the Sinaloa Cartel is killing fentanyl makers just to stay off of Trump's bad side.  Was that so hard?"

Marco Rubio on X - "These people that once worked for Trump now call him a fascist because they wanted to land big money from corporate boards, speaking fees and university teaching jobs"

Meme - Biden eating ice cream: "Get the jab or lose your job, Jack!"
Soyjak: "Okay!"
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "We're going to make food healthier."
Soyjak: "NOOOOOOO!!"

Unclear If Angry-Looking Bald Person A Neo-Nazi Or Leftist Woman | Babylon Bee - "At publishing time, scientists had overheard the bald person going on an antisemitic rant that left them no closer to determining if it was a neo-nazi or a Leftist woman."

Meme - "It will affect us all. There will be shortages also."
"Here's a list of prices increasing by 25% as of 1/21/25:
Natural Gas
auto parts
automobiles
fruits, nuts and vegetables
electronics and appliances
oil and gas
medical instruments
plastic and rubber items
cement and lime
lumber
transportation equipment
medications
Cereal, flour, starch, milk preparations and products
furniture
This is just a small list of imports from Canada and Mexico where prices will drastically increase for the consumer. WE TRIED TO TELL YOU....."
Left wingers are economically illiterate. Even assuming that 100% of these goods are imported from Canada and Mexico (even if the US doesn't make any of them, they can be imported from elsewhere), tariffs are not fully reflected in market prices

Meme - Travis Johnson: "NO, WE DON'T PRAY TO ORANGE JESUS IN THIS HOUSE. YES, WE HATE YOU, AND NO, YOU'RE NOT WELCOME AT OUR TABLE DURING THIS THANKSGIVING...OR ANY FAMILY GATHERING EVER AGAIN." Shawn StShawn: "So much love and acceptance! I'm glad my family isn't infested with bitter, angry weirdos like everyone on this Regardless of politics, everyone in my family is welcome and loving, I hope you all get to feel a fraction of the holiday spirit I will be today"
These are the people who claim to be against "hate". As usual the left is projecting

The thing I hate about him the most is he has made me aware of how much I can hate someone. - "The thing I hate about him the most is he has made me aware of how much I can hate someone."
When they proclaim that they are the hateful ones

Newsom Assures Californians They Will Be Safe From All The Trump Administration's Prosperity, Safety, Lower Prices | Babylon Bee - "At publishing time, the governor's office had announced Newsom's plan to declare California a sanctuary state for high taxes, inflation, child mutilation, and unrestrained violent crime."

The Redheaded libertarian on X - "Tulsi: I was placed on a terrorist watch list after endorsing you.
Trump: How would you like to outrank the people who put you there."

Meme - Democratic Donkey shoving Elon Musk: "FUCK OFF!"
Democratic Donkey shoving Tulsi Gabbard: "FUCK OFF!"
Democratic Donkey shoving Robert F Kennedy Jr: "FUCK OFF!"
Democratic Donkey: "WHY ARE YOU GUYS HELPING TRUMP??"

Meme - "r/Feminism"
"Should I divorce my husband before project 2025 gets enacted?
I have been thinking about just divorcing him before the no fault divorce goes through. It’s a scary thought."
"You have some time if anything does happen. But the fact that you're thinking this indicates you're ready to leave. Like they say, the thing you hope for when the coin is in the air is what you really want."
"To be honest I just want to I will still be with him but the climate rm doesn't look good"
Trump Derangement Syndrome has very real costs. But of course left wingers keep fanning the flames of TDS

Alana Mastrangelo on X - "Donald Trump was lifted up by the people against the will of the elites. Kamala Harris was lifted up by the elites against the will of the people. Vote accordingly."
Left wingers still pretend that Trump is somehow representative of the establishment

Meme - Ana Kasparian: "Bush suspended Habeas Corpus for two years. You were his speechwriter."
David Frum @davidfrum: "We are headed toward a US constitutional crisis vastly bigger than Watergate"

Trump Lost Magnet, Youre in a Cult, Funny Political for Car or Fridge, Democrat, Liberal Gifts, Presidential Election Humor, Bumper Sticker
"The left are the ones who disown friends and family members over political opinions but will call the other side a cult even though most cults tell people to not associate with non members"
Left wing projection strikes again

Andrew Sullivan: Questions About Youth Gender Transitions - "Let’s unpack this by comparing it to the last impeachment. Bill Clinton was impeached after a years-long hunt for malfeasance on the charge of lying under oath about an extramarital affair... It’s a little much for Republicans to have insisted on the Clinton impeachment and yet declare this one unworthy to be considered because the offense, while bad, did not rise to the “high crimes and misdemeanors” standard."
From 2019. It's interesting how it's supposed to be hypocrisy that Republicans in the mid 90s and late 10s allegedly had different standards

LD Basler on X - "To all the Democrats in DC who will be getting fired: Learn to code. Isn't that what you told the 11,000 pipeline workers Biden fired on Day 1?"

Opinion | The Legal Battle Against Trump Was a Miserable Failure - The New York Times - "The yearslong effort to vanquish Donald Trump in court was a dismal failure.  For liberals like me, it may be tempting to attribute the collapse of the various cases against him to convenient explanations of process or personnel. The more uncomfortable truth is that our search for political salvation primarily through the law has backfired. To oppose Mr. Trump in his second term, liberals must learn the lesson of this defeat, which is that there is no alternative to persuading our fellow citizens of our beliefs. For decades, liberals have made the mistake of prioritizing legal victories over popular ones. It was a method of prolonging the civil rights movement even after its opponents assembled a majority to halt it... A few victories made it easy for liberals to forget that the law is just another domain of politics where their enemies enjoy power too. They talked of law as a matter of principle, ignoring that their movement had mainly treated it as a weapon for legalistic political change. Legalism’s greatest theorist, Judith Shklar, defined it as the adoption of an ethics of rule-following and defended it as a useful strategy. Along the way, you claim that the rules are on your side and impose them on your political enemies, and sometimes yourself, because the results are good ones. The trouble is that they regularly aren’t. In this election, legalistic tactics contributed to Mr. Trump’s victory, helping to produce the popular majority he had never boasted before. For all of Mr. Trump’s misdeeds, prosecuting them was not worth the cost of restoring him to power... The legalistic resistance was supercharged in May 2017 when Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to investigate Russian election interference and Mr. Trump’s “collusion” with it. But when Mr. Mueller’s inconclusive report was released in April 2019, it was an embarrassment to liberals. The politics of law had misdirected their focus for years, and in the process convinced millions of Americans that Mr. Trump’s foes were as prone to conspiratorial thinking as his allies. Cries that Mr. Trump’s opponents were engaged in “lawfare” suddenly gained credibility. That would prove fateful when, after Mr. Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6 attack, criminal cases began to accumulate against him... many liberals, convinced that their causes were righteous, didn’t register the risks of this legalistic strategy, which included being seen by voters as treating the law as politics by other means. The criminal investigations fueled their target’s dominance of the Republican primary race and breathed new life into his campaign fund-raising. The election became something like national jury nullification — after the fact for the New York case, and pre-emptively for the others... Unsurprisingly, legalistic moves produce a struggle for more power over the law. Mr. Trump’s choices for attorney general — first Matt Gaetz, now Pam Bondi — were predictable responses to the protracted attempt to hold him accountable. His rationale for both, as he put it, was ending the weaponization of the Justice Department — the honest response to which is that law has always been a weapon, and what matters is whether it advances just or unjust outcomes on balance... those committed to litigating Mr. Trump’s policies aggressively should keep in mind the risk of producing illiberal and noxious precedents that could last for decades. Such was the risk incurred in the travel ban case as well as the Smith investigation, which has nothing to show for itself except the Supreme Court’s decision granting the president broad immunity from prosecution."

Thread by @DschlopesIsBack on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The Full Truth About Ray Epps
After his failed defamation suit against Fox News it's now safe to fully expose this man for all that he's done before, on and after January 6th.  🧵 THREAD
"We need to go IN to the Capitol!"  This is a good place to start with Ray Epps. The damning video starts on the night of January 5th, when Epps tries to incite Trump supports to go into the Capitol the next day. They respond by saying "Nooo!!" before chanting "Fed! Fed! Fed!" Next you can see Ray Epps in action on January 6th telling people "we are going to the Capitol, where are problems are." Then you will see him whispering something into the ear of Ryan Samsel right before Samsel and others charge the barrier with Ray Epps right there behind them. The aforementioned Ryan Samsel (who Ray Epps whispered into the ear of in my previous post) has been a political prisoner for years now spending tons of time in solitary confinement and has been beaten and assaulted while in federal prison.
Despite all this, you might find it VERY odd that the ONLY person involved in January 6th that the Left and the mainstream media have staunchly defended is Ray Epps.  They wanted the book thrown at anybody else that was even present at the Capitol that day. I'm even got to the point where 60 Minutes did a fluff piece interview trying to help Ray Epps clear his name from this "conspiracy theory."
Where did these alleged Ray Epps federal agent "conspiracy theories" come from? Well, directly from the FBI themselves.  Early on Epps was put on an FBI watch list before quickly being removed, without explanation. The official FBI Washington Field Office account also made this "Seeking Information" post where Ray Epps can clearly be seen in the yellow square below.  Oddly enough this post is STILL up today as the pinned post for @FBIWFO 🤔
Here was Trump's expected new FBI Director Kash Patel discussing Ray Epps with @Timcast  "Ray Epps was on FBI's most wanted list one day and the next day he was off of the FBI's most wanted list. There are only two ways that happens: You die... or you're an informant."... Now we get to the Jan. 6th Committee and this is where things get even more interesting.  Notice how the shame panel was already "seeking to debunk unfounded theory about F.B.I. role in riot" BEFORE interviewing Epps? Seems just a bit biased...
he January 6th Committee asked Ray Epps about texting his nephew "I was in the front with a few others. I also orchestrated it."  What did Epps mean by this, according to him it was just "helping people get there." 🤡  The Jan. 6th Committee didn't even bother challenging Ray Epps claiming that the video of him the night before on January 5th (see my first post in this thread) was him trying to "deescalate" a group of people.  Imagine watching that video and thinking this is what happened. 🤦‍♂️
Don't worry, hardened marine veteran Ray Epps only wanted to be in the front lines on his way to go into the Capitol because he was... cold. Ray Epps testified to the Jan. 6th Committee that he left the Capitol at 2:12pm but he actually left at 2:54pm.  This is lying under oath, right?
"We're here to storm the Capitol" - Ray Epps  I should have put this earlier in the thread. It's from "The Rest of the Story with Lara Logan: Insurrection vs FedSurrection: Part One." This is a great January 6th documentary by @laralogan... Eventually Ray Epps tried to sue Fox News for defamation. To me, it seems as if this was an attempt to scare people and media outlets from looking into Epps and posting, discussing and writing articles about him.  Every single MSM outlet covered this and many even cheered it on."

How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up

Amazingly, this is still an issue in 2025:

How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips’ decision to block a public inquiry into the Oldham grooming gangs seems, from the outside, to be almost inexplicable. Children were raped and abused by gangs of men while the authorities failed to protect them.

A review of the abuse in Oldham was released in 2022, but its terms of reference only stretched from 2011-2014. Survivors from the town said that they wanted a government-led inquiry to cover a longer period, and catch what the previous review had missed. In Jess Phillips’s letter to the council, revealed by GB News, she said she understood the strength of feeling in the town, but thought it best for another local review to take place.

This is a scandal that should be rooted out entirely, and investigated by the full might of the British state. Voices ranging from Elon Musk to Kemi Badenoch have joined the calls for an inquiry. Yet the Government seems curiously reluctant to dig into the failings of officials.

This reluctance is not new. Across the country, in towns and in cities, on our streets and in the state institutions designed to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, authorities deliberately turned a blind eye to horrific abuse of largely white children by gangs of men predominantly of Pakistani heritage.

Over time, details have come to light about abuse in Rotherham, in Telford, in Rochdale and in dozens of other places. But with the stories released in dribs and drabs, and the details so horrific as to be almost unreadable, the full scale of the scandal has still to reach the public.

The following paragraph makes for difficult reading. But you should read it, if you can. It’s drawn from Judge Peter Rook’s 2013 sentencing of Mohammed Karrar in Oxford.

Mohammed prepared his victim “for gang anal rape by using a pump... You subjected her to a gang rape by five or six men. At one point she had four men inside her. A red ball was placed in her mouth to keep her quiet.”

Her story is horrific. It is also far from unique.

Take “Anna”, from Bradford. Vulnerable and in residential care, at the age of 14 had made repeated reports of rape, abuse, and coercion. When she “married” her abuser in a traditional Islamic wedding, her social worker attended the ceremony. The authorities then arranged for her to be fostered by her “husband’s” parents.

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”.

This is not to say that the council did nothing. Aware that taxi drivers were offering children rides for sex, in 2006 it suspended licensing enforcement for drivers, allowing high risk drivers to continue practicing. As the Telford Inquiry found, this was “borne entirely out of fear of accusations of racism; it was craven”.

And above all, there was the concern over community relations: senior council staff were terrified that the abuse of children “had the potential to start a ‘race riot’”. The result was stasis, despite officials acknowledging in at least one case that abuse by Asian men had gone on for “years and years”.

It had: at least 1,000 girls were abused in the town between 1980 and 2009. Yet even this conservative estimate was disputed by authority figures, with West Mercia police superintendent Tom Harding insisting in 2018 the figure was “sensationalised”. The independent review later found it entirely plausible.

Denial about the extent of the problem is rooted deep in Britain’s political system. At times, it appears that the government’s approach to multiculturalism is not to uphold the law, but instead to minimise the risk of unrest between communities. Confronted with gangs of predominantly Pakistani men targeting predominantly white children, the state knew exactly what to do. For the good of community relations, it had to bury the story.

In Rotherham, a senior police officer told a distressed father that the town “would erupt” if the routine abuse of white children by Pakistani heritage men became public knowledge. One parent concerned about a missing daughter was told by the police that an “older Asian boyfriend” was a “fashion accessory” for girls in the town. The father of a 15-year-old rape victim was told the assault might mean she would “learn her lesson”.

The ordeal had been so brutal that she required surgery.

As the 2014 Jay Inquiry into Rotherham found, children were “doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight”, “threatened with guns”, “witnessed brutally violent rapes and were threatened that they would be the next victim if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators, one after the other”.

In the same town, a senior police officer allegedly said the abuse had been “going on” for 30 years, adding “with it being Asians, we can’t afford for this to be coming out.

As Louise Casey’s 2015 report on Rotherham Council found, this attitude was widespread. The Pakistani community accounted for around 3 per cent of the town’s population, and the story emerging was clear: Pakistani men were grooming white girls. As a result, one witness said, the council was “terrified of [the impact on] community cohesion”.

Across the town, pressure was put on people to “suppress, keep quiet or cover up” issues around child abuse. A former senior officer told her review that “x didn’t want [the] town to become the child abuse capital of the north. They didn’t want riots.”

Politicians were terrified [of the impact on] community cohesion. This nervousness meant that there was “a sense that it was the Pakistani heritage Councillors who alone ‘dealt’ with that community”, with their having a “disproportionate influence” on the council: as one witness put it, “[my] experience of council as it was and is – Asian men very powerful, and the white British are very mindful of racism and frightened of racism allegations so there is no robust challenge”. Other concerns may have been even more sinister. In 2016, it was reported that a victim of grooming in Rotherham had alleged that she was raped by a town councillor.

As a result of this combination of factors, the council went to great lengths to “cover up information and silence whistle-blowers”. In the words of witnesses, “if you want to keep your job, you keep your head down and your mouth shut”.

This resistance to an obvious truth repeated itself across the country. By 2010, a West Midlands Police report showed that authorities were aware that grooming gangs were approaching children at school gates.

But as the report stated, “the predominant offender profile of Pakistani Muslim males… combined with the predominant victim profile of white females has the potential to cause significant community tensions”. As a result, the report remained unpublished until released in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests five years later.

In Manchester, a 2019 report concluded gangs were left to roam the streets in part because officers were told to look elsewhere. One detective constable was quoted by a report as saying “the offending target group were predominantly Asian males and we were told to try and get other ethnicities”.

Central government took a similar view. In 2020, the Home Office refused to release its research into grooming gangs, claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so. When it was finally released, it turned out to be a whitewash: a shoddy construction which appeared to deliberately downplay the clear role ethnicity had played in the phenomenon.

When people did try to raise the issue, they found themselves shouted down. In 2004, a Channel 4 documentary into abuse in Bradford was delayed after police forces warned the evidence of “Asian men targeting young white girls” could inflame racial tensions.

One of the bleakest cover-ups emerged in Rochdale. Fifteen-year-old Victoria Agoglia, a vulnerable child in care, died in 2003 when 50-year-old Mohammed Yaqoob injected her with heroin. In the lead-up to her death, a review published last year found, she had given authorities information that she was “involved in sexual exploitation, alleged rape, and sexual assault requiring medical attention”. None resulted in her rescue. Across the town, girls as young as 12 were being raped by gangs.

When the first convictions in Rochdale were handed down in 2012, the police and Crown Prosecution Service apologised for failing to follow up on appeals for help. As former Labour MP for Keighley Ann Cryer put it, the authorities “were petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctness”. As a result, despite a child telling the police she had been raped, and providing DNA evidence, no prosecution was brought.

The sense that authorities believed that a full investigation would be more trouble than it was worth is widespread. Simon Danczuk, the former MP for Rochdale has said “senior Labour politicians” warned him against discussing “the ethnicity of the perpetrators, for fear of losing votes”. Today, dozens of offenders are still believed to be at large in the community.

While fears over racial tensions and political correctness have left the state frequently unwilling to protect victims, the same concerns have seen attackers protected.

As the Jay Inquiry into Rotherham found in 2014, in at least two cases fathers tracked down their daughters and attempted to remove them from the houses where they were being abused.

The police arrested the fathers.

In other cases, child victims were arrested for “drunk and disorderly” behaviour, rather than the adult men they were with. Small wonder that Jay found young people in the town believed police “dared not act against Asian youths for fear of allegations of racism”.

The protection of offenders may have gone further still. In at least one case, when a victim found the courage to go to the police, their abuser appears to have been tipped off. While still in the police station, one child received a text from her abuser informing her that he had her 11-year-old sister, and that it was now “your choice…”. The child chose not to go through with the complaint.

These stories cover only a small number of towns. The broader picture, however, is clear. The consequences are clear, too: no police officer or government employee has ever been imprisoned for their misconduct. Indeed, in Rotherham, the harshest sanctions faced by the police were written warnings.

Even offenders have managed to dodge some of the consequences for their actions. Despite being stripped of British citizenship, the leader of a Rochdale grooming gang still lives among his victims despite being ordered to be deported.

If Britain is to redeem itself for the grooming gang scandal, it needs to understand how it got things so terribly wrong. This begins with the attitude that protecting the image of a successful multicultural society matters more than the actual truth of that multicultural society.

It isn’t hard to see why councils panicked when confronted with the sheer scale of the abuse. As a recent study calculated, one in 73 Muslim men living in Rotherham were prosecuted for their involvement in these gangs from 1997 to 2016. This was an almost unsolvable problem for a society built on liberal principles.

Even now, discussing primarily Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs as primarily Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs causes problems; IPSO waded in to censure Home Secretary Suella Braverman for this claim last year, citing deeply flawed Home Office research in its ruling. Yet if we can’t be honest about the problems we’re facing, we won’t be able to address them.

In the words of Guy Dampier, a researcher at The Legatum Institute think tank: “The rape gangs scandal was a product of multiculturalism, which in practice meant the authorities turning a blind eye because victims were mostly white and their abusers largely ethnically Pakistani.”

Anti-racism charities, pressure groups and left-wing academics all conspired to stifle discussion or lie that it was only a “moral panic”. The result is thousands of abused girls and a scandal which has scarred British politics.”

Fixing this mess starts by uncovering everything. As research by one of us, Charlie Peters, has shown, these gangs have been active in over 50 towns and villages across the UK — and there are no doubt more that we have yet to hear about.

Even as recently as 2021, it emerged that South Yorkshire Police was still failing to record the ethnicity of offenders, with 67 per cent of cases lacking details in Rotherham.

The state must leave no stone unturned in its efforts to root out this evil. As one victim told GB News, “a government inquiry is the only way to hold Oldham Council and Greater Manchester Police accountable for their huge failures that led to hundreds of survivors being mistreated and not listened to. A Telford-style inquiry will give answers to survivors but it won’t give justice to those who deserve it.”

As shadow justice minister Robert Jenrick recently wrote in these pages, “a national inquiry is just the start: we need justice for the victims”. In his words, “this appalling scandal continues today because perpetrators still walk free and the officials who covered it up have been let off. The individuals who turned a blind eye to these crimes – and fed the most vulnerable women to the wolves – should be in jail.”

Reform UK’s Rupert Lowe has called a “full, free and fair public inquiry” that will “show the British people the facts, and let them decide”.

“No stone must be left unturned” in holding the guilty to account, “including those who acted to cover up these atrocities”. For the guilty, Lowe’s prescription is simple: “deportations and prosecutions, lots of them”.

“Any man or woman found to be complicit in these crimes should be deported, including dual nationals who should have their citizenship stripped away. That includes family members who were aware of what their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers were participating in. Swift and brutal justice is required”.

And above all, concerns over multiculturalism must no longer be allowed to outweigh the need to keep the public safe. As Dampier points out, we “need an end to two-tier community relations and the application of the law equally to all”.

Robert Jenrick agrees: “to sustain order in multicultural Britain, the state considered it necessary to apply the law selectively. For decades the most appalling crimes from diaspora groups were legalised and actively covered up to prevent disorder. The rule of law was abandoned to sustain the myth that diversity is our strength, destroying the lives of thousands of working class white girls in the process. This scandal starts with the onset of mass migration. This appalling affair is the final nail in the coffin for liberals who cling to the argument that Britain is an integration success story. Mass migration must end immediately and the foreign nationals prosecuted for their monstrous crimes must be deported - no ifs, no buts”.

It may sound strong. But strong measures are required. The British state’s soft touch approach left this problem to fester and rot.

Children were abandoned to suffer in the name of community relations, an unforgivable price. And it was a price that brought nothing: harmony based on lies doesn’t last. Public fury is swelling, and there is more to be angry about than if the cases had been dealt with swiftly at the time. Indeed, abuse may still be taking place because the state failed to act properly before.

It’s time for a new approach. The truth must be brought to the light.

 

One claim is that the UK doesn't really have two-tier policing but that policing has collapsed and that the police just pick low hanging fruit, for example where people post material online, thus providing the material they can be prosecuted on.

But clearly, there is pressure to prosecute certain crimes and not others, as even when there is lots of evidence, certain crimes are not prosecuted due to the left wing agenda. 

 

Many years ago, someone claimed that most sexual abuse of children was by white people, so there was no reason to be concerned about migrant grooming gangs. Presumably a lot more than 1 in 73 white men are sexual abusers, for this claim to be true.

Ironically, we are told that in the US police misconduct is appalling because the state is supposed to protect people, so even though US police misconduct is rare, it deserves disproportionate attention. But of course institutional coverup of grooming gangs is good, because of racism.

This is why left wingers hate the Telegraph so much.

Political correctness and wokeness literally kill.

Links - 5th January 2025 (Haitian Migrants in the US)

Meme *White man hunting deer*
Soyjak: "YOU DONT NEED TO HURT FOR DEER!! JUST GO TO THE GROCERY STORE YOU STUPID REDNECKS!! JFC STOP OVER-COMPENSATING!!"
*Alleged Haitian with geese*
Soyjak: "I SEE NOTHING WRONG HERE, IT'S PART OF THEIR CULTURE AND WE HAVE TOO MANY BIRDS ANYWAY. PEOPLE HAVE TO EAT. DON'T BE RACIST."

~~datahazard~~ on X - "Haitians are allowed to commit 1 misdemeanor crime in the USA and still qualify for TPS parole."
Biden Admin Authorizes Mass Overtime To Process Haitian Migrants Before Inauguration Day, Agent Says - "DHS spokeswoman Katherine Belcher told The Daily Wire that “Noncitizens who have been convicted of any felony or two or more misdemeanors committed in the United States are not eligible for TPS. Noncitizens who have participated in the persecution of another individual or engaged in or incited terrorist activity are not eligible for TPS.”"
Daniel Frohlich on X - "Wild. Before I became a US citizen, when I was still on a visa (I had many - B1, J1, F1, H1), I was always 💩 scared to not get into any trouble lest I jeopardize my chances of getting the revered greencard. I was worried that even just a speeding ticket would do it."

Meme - ☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 Ƒʉͫcͧкͭιͪηͣ 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎ @LuckyMcGee:"Friendly reminder to show some kindness today. As an example, I'm sending some MREs to the Haitian Immigrants in Springfield. #BeKindAlways *shrinkwrapped cat*"

Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "Two black Portland women have been federally indicted for allegedly enslaving three Haitians at a care home they owned and operated.  The mother and daughter suspects were charged with conspiring with one another to commit forced labor, committing forced labor and benefitting from forced labor.  Portland, Ore., a progressive city racked by white guilt politics, has not had much response over the news. There have been no riots over black slavery operating in the city. The local media and politicians previously amplified and created a panic over hate crime hoaxes blamed on phantom white supremacists. https://nypost.com/2019/03/30/inside-the-suspicious-rise-of-gay-hate-crimes-in-portland/  Marie Gertrude Jean Valmont, the mother who was indicted, sued a Portland nonprofit for $250k in 2021 for alleged racial discrimination after she was fired."

Thread by @njhochman on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This how every single argument for mass immigration goes.
Step 1: "Oh, you have concerns about [X group] coming into your country? Well, here's one person from that group who's good. What do you think of that, huh? Do you hate this person, too??"
[when presented with evidence that said person isn't representative of said group writ large]  Step 2: Actually, all those bad things you just mentioned are America's fault. And anyways, it's good for them to come here. I don't have to explain why. It just is.
[no, I think that would probably be bad for us]  Step 3: Honestly, who even is "us"? Who is "we"? Does America even exist? Do you know what America is? Because other people think America's something else. So how can you be so sure that America is anything at all?
Step 3.5: Actually, America is a real thing. But that real thing is just values—values that just so happen to require us to accept unlimited amounts of people from every single place in the world. And if you disagree, you actually hate America.
Step 4: Statue of Liberty quote. Obligatory. Pro-tip: At this point, you start really layering the moral condescension on thick. You can't believe that anybody would be so stupid as to not want infinite Haitians. It's insulting. It's outrageous. Frankly, it's un-American. Does your interlocutor know anything about America?
Step 5: Google "quotes about why immigration is awesome."  Try to find one from somebody that you think the guy you're arguing with might like and/or respect. Boom. Owned.
Step 6: Alright, you know what? None of that worked. Change of plans. Pivot to just googling pictures of the guy you're arguing with and posting them in his mentions.
Step 7: Double down. Then bizarrely claim at the end that you're not saying the thing that everyone knows you're obviously saying. (At this point you're not even talking about immigration anymore, which is good, because you know you lost that argument).
Anyways, none of this is actually an abstract thought experiment—as much as the other side wants it to be. Real people. Real consequences.  @America_2100 is going to Charleroi, PA next week to report on what’s happening on the ground. Follow our account to keep up with the story."

Benny Johnson on X - "ABC News: ‘There is no evidence of migrants eating pets’
YouTuber: ‘Here’s 30 minutes of firsthand accounts of residents in Springfield Ohio where many who live there say the pets are disappearing’
ABC News: ‘Let’s talk about climate change…’"

Park MacDougald on X - "Dumping a group of foreigners on a place equivalent to 1/3rd of the local population is the sort of thing that Herodotus would describe a tyrant doing to punish a city for rebelling or siding with his enemy in war"
WesForest1803🌲 on X - "If you read in a history book about a random county whose government put 20,000 foreigners into one of its struggling towns without their consent, made them pay for their food/lodging/medical care, and told dissenters they were bad people for disagreeing, and then the next paragraph was about the people revolting and deposing those in power, you wouldn't even yawn."

Jeremy Kauffman 🦔 on X - "Haitians are children to most Americans. This is what I've learned over the last 48 hours.  Haitians aren't to blame for having children when they have to eat mud. Haitians aren't to blame when they murder and rape each other. Haitians aren't to blame when they have murderous revolutions every 10 years.  Children can't be expected to learn to farm. Children can't be expected to not physically fight each other. Children can't be expected to invent anything, discover anything, or build anything.  Children lack agency. Children need to be taken care of. Children deserve love and support, even when they act out or violate rules.   People think Haitians are literal children."

Meme - Jeremy Kauffman: "Almost all of my posts documenting Haiti are now illegal to access in the EU. Including ones as tame as the one on the left. "
The post is quoted above

Coddled affluent professional on X - "Springfield, Ohio is a good tableau. Here you have a small town that was left behind by globalization and poisoned by opioids. Instead of helping these people our government and NGOs imports and privileges replacements for the ‘bad’ and ‘lazy’ people already there. Don’t believe that’s what the narrative has been?  Here’s the NY Times saying Springfield residents are lazy drug addicts who aren’t up for the job.  I guess they’re disposable and need to be replaced then? 🤷‍♂️"

pagliacci the hated 🌝 on X - "Look at him. Look how giddy he is about displacing American workers.   Terminally online wannabe-communists ignore shit like this while on their ahistorical social justice crusades.  In reality, labor movements have always been exceptionally racist and protectionist for a reason.  Capitalism adores open borders. It loves migration. It requires globalization. All of it enables corporations to have access to an infinite pool of cheap, subservient labor.  American fruit pickers want better working conditions? Flood the fields with Mexicans who know better than to ask.  American call center workers want higher wages? Shut the center down and move it to India.  American factory workers want safety equiptment? Jack the price of the product up to lead consumers to believe domestic labor is impossibly expensive before outsourcing the production line to China.  In Canada, the "communist party" was advocating for the right of temporary foreign workers to stay in the country and do entry-level food service jobs that should be going to Canadian youth. This serves literally no function other than to suppress local wages.  A joke!  All of these little activist’s interests align with big money. Curious!"

Meme - Douglass Mackey @DougMackeyCase: "This is why businesses love Haitian workers.  An American citizen gets paid $16.50 per hour. No food stamps. No Social Security. No cash assistance. No rent assistance. No free car. No free car insurance.  A Haitian gets paid $9 per hour and they get everything else paid for. After considering all the federal benefits, it’s likely to hat the Haitian is making double, or perhaps much more than that, of what an American worker would make.  Probably upwards of $30 per hour, and the employer only has to pay $9 of that. No wonder they make such willing workers…"
"Dewine is somewhat right, we can't get people in the door where I work for 16.75/hr. so we outsource to a temp service who uses Haitians. The Haitians get everything the government is handing out plus a salary while due to inflation, citizens can't survive on our starting pay."
There's a left wing meme mocking those who simultaneously think that immigrants are on welfare and stealing jobs, but this shows how those two ideas are compatible

Thread by @vagrantwires on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Thread 🧵: The most important aspect of the Haitian scandal is how it reveals the whole "they work/help the economy" stuff to be an absurd farce and a lie. The reason Haitians "work" is because they get mountains of free stuff paid for by the taxpayers in exchange.
A company can employ Haitians at the absolute minimum wage because the Haitians get free healthcare, free food, free housing, and even cash stipends which they refer to as "magic money cards": because the cash never runs dry. This is all subsidized by taxpayers. So most companies, "small" and "local" businesses included, would rather pay slave wages to foreigners who are more than happy to show up to work because they know in exchange for doing so they will receive mountains of rewards from NGOs, charities, and the government. Meanwhile the American citizens are turned into wealth extraction machines. They pay all the taxes, don't get these same benefits, and are still forced to work for cheap wages. They can barely make ends meet. Inflation is killing them at the pump, at the grocery store and everywhere else in their lives because they have no reprieve from its effects and no political recourse to stop it. But the foreigner gets shielded from this. They don't care about their wage or the cost of food, or rent prices, because it is all paid for by other people.
So the American becomes unduly burdened by stress and fatigue, run down, abused, demoralized. Living check to check. They become indebted to large financial organizations. They are always trying to bridge the gap for their families, but can't quite seem to get ahead of it. Americans are forced to rent expensive homes from slumlords who also rake in millions in government subsidies for jacking up the prices of those same homes to dole out to foreigners at a discount. The slumlords, like the foreigners, are also made whole by OUR tax dollars. Similarly, corporations can all raise the prices of their goods in this rising tide of parasitism. Who cares if Americans can't afford food when you know a horde of foreigners are going to come to your store with endless money to spend on whatever they want? 5$ bread? Why not!
All of this rightly frustrates the American, which fuels liberal resentment against him. In this suppressed state of constant abuse, the American is prone to acting out, susceptible to materialist distractions, procrastination, and other toxic forms of consumer stress relief. This behavior in turn is encouraged from all major seats of societal power: government, culture, entertainment, media, financial sectors, etc. "You're so stressed, buy something to take the edge off. Don't start a family or buy a home, it will always be out of reach anyway!"
The American becomes spiritually demoralized, a shell of himself, because he has lost his hope. We are told to "love our neighbor" when a foreigner comes to leech off our fellow countrymen, but we are told to ignore our own American neighbors when we see them in distress. Endless support materializes for the foreigner, who is fetishized and placed on a pedestal. But the American is rebuked, criticized, and held responsible for all sin in the history of mankind. He is ostracized. He has become the "other", downtrodden in his own homeland. The process of life support that the foreigner receives from pathologically tolerant liberals - both of the Democrat and GOP variety - doesn't kick in for the American. When he complains, or says he has had enough, or that he needs help, he is not given a free house.
He is not given a job. He is not given a "magic money card". No, instead those same charity mongers do the opposite. He is rebuked, called racist, insulted and spat upon by those who despise his existence. He is tortured even more for the mere crime of noticing his condition. Meanwhile the Regime and its loyalists are thrilled at the prospect of replacing and punishing all of those "right wingers" whom they so viciously resent. That leftist hatred comes from a place of vitriolic judgement and disgust for the normal. This dark sentiment runs deep.
Their pathological tolerance is only ever applied to foreigners, not because they like them, but because they see foreigners as a weapon with which to punish their enemies. They're happy to bankrupt the country because it hurts us. The politics of spite drive their behavior. Theis spite is fluffed up with modernist morality and given a pseudo-Christian skinsuit to guilt the masses into accepting it as gospel. It makes no sense upon careful inspection, but they only need basic camouflage to get it past a population in such constant distress."

Thread by @Will_Tanner_1 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - [On the meme "Schrodinger's Immigrant: Lazy collecting welfare, But also stealing all the jobs."] "This meme is going around in an attempt to attack the right over its immigration stance, framing the narratives about mass migration as absurd  In fact, the claims are true, and the existence of one enables the other, quite disastrously for Americans  I'll explain in the 🧵👇
The recent reports from groups like @America_2100 about what is going on in Springfield, Ohio showed this to be true  20,000 Haitians didn't just randomly show up in Springfield (nor do migrants generally just show up anywhere)  Rather, they were attracted there by job postings NGOs showed only to Haitians, brought into the town by NGOs, supported in their lifestyles by NGOs, and then told to work for the low wages (relative to American wages) provided by those jobs, supported in doing so by gobs of NGO money Examples of that same general story happening across the country abound: what generally is the case is that the government is using tax dollars to heap cash on NGOs, which then use it to enrich themselves and subsidize the invaders  The Springfield Haitians NGO got hundreds of millions; now apply that across thousands of 501c3s using donor and taxpayer dollars to subsidize the migrants, legal and illegal, as the same story is true of pretty much every town in America and the NGOs operating in it to flood it with migrants It's really hard to overstate how expansive these groups are, or the massive amounts of funding they have
Another involved in the Haitian invasion, the Haitian Bridge Alliance, as @Oilfield_Rando pointed out, has gotten millions of dollars of funding in recent years, a great deal of it from George Soros, and used it to help resettle Haitians in America  It's website provides, "The Haitian Bridge Alliance is a 501c(3) non-profit organization that advocates for fair and humane immigration policies and connects migrants with humanitarian, legal, and social services — with a particular focus on Black migrants, the Haitian community, women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and survivors of torture."
The NGO aspect of the mass migration invasion is important because it's how those migrants, legal and illegal, can afford to work all day for minimum wage, as @DougMackeyCase recently pointed out  When they're paid a few dollars an hour for their work (whatever the real number is, Mackey is just giving an approximation), they're being supported by the equivalent of dozens of dollars and hour in NGO and government (Ah, but I repeat myself) subsidies that make the true cost of having them here extremely expensive, even ignoring the social cost of having them in America  So instead of paying $20 an hour to an American, or even the full $30 it really costs to employ the Haitian, businesses just pay $9 an hour...hence why they "love Haitians" as that one scumbag business owner from Springfield said about the invaders. They "love" the invaders because the invaders are supported in their incomes from the feds, unlike American taxpayers who get no comparable assistance of note from the government, and so can work for "cheap" compared to Americans
So yes, the problem, much as those on the left deride us for pointing it out, is both that the migrants are welfare mooches and are taking the jobs.  They can take the jobs because the welfare subsidies, both directly from the government and through NGOs, let them work for far less than American workers, who get no assistance from their government of the sort it provides to the invaders it is replacing them with, and the weak-chinned Republican "community leaders" clap like seals because the Haitians go to church and are "here to work"
If the funding was yanked, both from Soros/fed NGOs like the Haitian Bridge Alliance and from government welfare programs for migrants, the invader job problem would melt away in most industries, as the cost of migrant labor would return to being close to the cost of American labor.  But right now, the migrants are subsidized to a great degree by the NGOs and government, so they work for a comparatively low amount"

Oilfield Rando on X - "“My community was in bad shape, lots of social problems. So rather than fix any of those problems, we just brought in 20,000 Haitian welfare cases and hoped maybe 40 or 50 would be good workers. Sure, the community has even more problems now, but I have 30 good workers!”"

Meme - [On Aiden Clark[ Crying man with "Cuck" hat: "I wish my son had been killed by a white man. Bet you didn't expect me to say that, huh? But I wish my son had been killed by a white man. An old white man. An old cis heteronormative Caucasian male. I really wish a black guy wasn't being blamed for the thing he literally did to my son. I wish he had been white instead. If he had just been white, no one would be racist anymore. I can't sleep at night, not because my son is dead, but because his killer wasn't the race he should have been. I just WISH my son's killer had belonged to an identity I would be slightly more comfortable with people criticizing. Please stop being racist to my son's killer. He should have been a white man - 60 years old, to be exact. Caucasoid, perhaps of German heritage. Blond hair, blue eyes. That's who I wish had killed"

Stephen Miller on X - "4 years ago, there were zero federal programs to illegally transport Haitian migrants to the US.  Harris launched multiple programs, including flights, to mass import Haitian illegals—with no public consent. 500K and counting.  No public officials has offered ANY public explanation for why these programs were launched or what benefit they are supposed to bring to Americans.  But if you believe we should return to the policy of just a few short years ago — illegals are deported, not imported — the media and Democrat elites calls you racist.  The same elites who melted down and deported a few dozen illegals from their ultra-rich coastal Hamlet in Martha’s Vineyard.  The leftist media hates you. The Democrat party hates you. And the only way to make your voice heard is to vote, vote, vote."

Meme - Mack @kenzietuff: "White people drinking raw milk: stupid, dumb, uneducated 💅
Black people eating dirt: beautiful, universal sign of poverty, diversity✨"
giggly @xgigglypuff: "Ok I'm saying it. Cancel me. Purchasing and drinking raw milk is genuinely stupid. There are no scientifically- proven health benefits. You are paying more money for something that puts you at higher risk for dangerous bacteria. I do not respect your opinion."
giggly @xgigglypuff: "In Appalachia, our cultural foods have evolved in the way that they have because our ancestors were poor and starving. Poor, white southerners ate foods that were cheap and calorically-dense. This is why we now eat biscuits and gravy, grits, and local vegetables cooked in...
Many of your ancestors in Europe underwent famine and died of starvation. You did nothing to deserve being born in a time period where that is..."
Jeremy Kauffman: "Haitians eat dirt cookies called bonbon te. Women buy sacks of dirt, often on credit, and mix them with a bit of fat and salt."

Meme - Jeremy Kauffman 🦔 @jeremykauffman: "Leftists will murder you over facts they dislike."
*looking through gun scope*
*image of hanging OP*
DOLFY: "I feel that racists like this should be beaten to death with hammers. Such a dangerous weaponization"
Tukach Shakur: "I want you dead and I'm not even kidding."
Time to detain the "far right" for violence and inciting violence!

Eva Vlaardingerbroek on X - "Seeing reports about Haitians stealing and eating people’s pet cats in Ohio. As per usual, we here in Europe are ahead of you guys when it comes to the shit that happens when you let the third world in. Here’s a migrant roasting up a cat in the streets of Italy back in 2020."

Dustin Grage on X - "Now we have the Springfield City Manager acknowledging on video that they’ve heard of complaints of domestic animals being eaten back in March. We also have a call report showing this. Why would they lie about there not being complaints? Unbelievable."

Meme - Patrick Casey @restoreorderusa: "You know the situation’s bad when even the local *Reform* rabbi’s sounding like a paleocon"
JTA | Jewish news @JTAnews: "The only rabbi in Springfield, Ohio, says local Haitian migrants lack ‘Western civilized values’"
So much for all Jews conspiring to destroy the West

Stephen Miller on X - "Kamala used every available government resource to airlift and evacuate 500 thousand Haitian illegals to the United States. But she couldn’t lift a finger to rescue drowning Americans in Asheville."
The motive is obvious

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "This sort of outlook is rooted in a foundational idea that explains so much of the bad thinking and policies on the left: The notion that people and groups are interchangeable and that all groups have the same ability and potential to achieve and contribute."
Aleph @woke8yearold: "Liberals insisting that there is no difference between sending 20k unskilled Haitians to a random town in Ohio and recruiting the world's best scientists is what is killing support for immigration in the west. They won't pivot because open borders is literally their religion"

Bolen on X - "Remember that stupid song "don't try this in a small town"? They literally sent 20,000 Haitians to that small town and they're getting away with it."

Meme - *Drake Hotline Bling*
"Cats &dogs being eaten" "FACT CHECKERS: *no*"
"men can breast feed" "FACT CHECKERS: *yes*"

Meme - captive dreamer: "More locals weighing in on the Haitian invasion of Springfield, Ohio:"
"I live near Springfield, most of my family lives in the city. Just wanted to say all the shit you're seeing isn't an exaggeration at all, the number of car accidents and hostile confrontations with locals is insane. My aunt walked into a women's restroom at the grocery store last month and was screamed at by two grown naked men taking a sink shower. Friend of a friend got his car hit by one (no license or insurance of course) and the little shit jumped out and started threatening him and demanding money. They are hostile invaders"

Shred News on X - "🚨 BREAKING: Reports Emerge of Alleged Haitian Vigilante Army Forming in Springfield, Ohio  📌 #SpringfieldOhio #VigilanteArmy #CivilUnrest #BreakingNews
• Alleged Vigilante Group: Reports are circulating that a group of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, have allegedly formed a vigilante-style army. While the full extent of the group’s activities remains unclear, these claims are raising concerns among residents and officials alike.
• Civil War Fears: Some are worried that this development could signal growing unrest and potentially lead to larger conflicts, especially in a climate of heightened tensions across the country. Many fear this could be a dangerous precedent that spirals into civil conflict.
• Uncertain Future: While the situation is still developing, questions arise about what this could mean for community safety and whether we’re seeing the early stages of something much bigger.
Stay tuned for updates as the story unfolds."

Meme - Isabella Maria DeLuca @isabellamdeluca: "Haitians in Springfield, Ohio have allegedly made a vigilante style army. If these were white Trump supporters the FBI would already be investigating."

Count Luke Twombly von Jolly on X - "The whole “Haitians are eating pets” reminds me of the Muslim grooming gang scandal in England. No journalist or politician admitted it because it sounds comically racist and nativist. So they just ignored the locals and lied for political purposes. Sound familiar?"

Ohio AG knocks 'media' over Springfield animal hunting claims - "Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Wednesday accused the "media" of ignoring evidence surrounding claims Springfield, Ohio residents are having their pets abducted and eaten."