What is the role of a moderator?

[mygiddypant]

This is one suggestion,

"a person who monitors an online forum or social media platform to ensure that its users and content abide by the rules, especially by deleting inappropriate or offensive content and banning or suspending users."

Over to you Froggy

[frogmiller]

This is one suggestion,

"a person who monitors an online forum or social media platform to ensure that its users and content abide by the rules, especially by deleting inappropriate or offensive content and banning or suspending users."

Over to you Froggy

I?ve been trying to give it up for years now.

I?ve obviously upset someone with hurty words as I can?t physically attack anyone.

Please expand why you think that I should be cancelled for having an opinion.

[mygiddypant]

I?ve been trying to give it up for years now.

I?ve obviously upset someone with hurty words as I can?t physically attack anyone.

Please expand why you think that I should be cancelled for having an opinion.

My fist observation is that you said Asian men ! Say Pakistani.

[Eternal Optimist]

In her 2014 independent review of the Rotherham case, Alexis Jay concluded that most of the "known perpetrators were of Pakistani heritage".

Why not contact her to disprove her words?

[mygiddypant]

In her 2014 independent review of the Rotherham case, Alexis Jay concluded that most of the "known perpetrators were of Pakistani heritage".

Why not contact her to disprove her words?

Keep up Gristy! Froggy's comment was in relation to a general inquiry into grooming/ ***ual abuse. I'm sure you realise that most ***ual

abuse takes place in the home. You could also add public schools and Catholic/ other Christian religious contexts.

All abuse of girls/boys is despicable. Even that perpetrated by American politicians.

[mygiddypant]

I?ve been trying to give it up for years now.

I would encourage you to try harder

[Eternal Optimist]

...You could also add public schools and Catholic/ other Christian religious contexts...

As a former Catholic Grammar schoolboy I can confirm this part of your post is true. Not much else, but there you go.

[Back of the net]

The role of a moderator should be to ignore hypocritical idiots. In that sense frogs is doing an amazing job. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[mygiddypant]

The role of a moderator should be to ignore hypocritical idiots. In that sense frogs is doing an amazing job. ������������

Spot the 'Paki'

https://x.com/nancychatter/status/1981298453599899842

[frogmiller]

Spot the 'Paki'

https://x.com/nancychatter/status/1981298453599899842

I suppose that we could sit all day at the computer and post a photo of convicted pakistani rapist followed by you posting a vicor. I would then give you a link to some pakistanis convicted rapist from Bradford. You then put a link to a group of white convicted rapists and then I'll post some pakistanis from shefffield, Telfor, Oldham, Leeds, Huddesfield, Dewsbury, Manchester, Oxford and so on until you realise that the men I am showing are the rapists convicted of the grooming gang crimes commited on young white working class girls in the north of England and other places including Luton.

You can dilute the problem by injecting people not related to the scandel first highlighted in the the Jay report as well as the Casey report that forced this government to hold a national inquirey


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Home secretary Yvette Cooper has issued an “unequivocal apology” over the failure of the British state to protect young girls from predatory grooming gangs over 16 years, as she confirmed a full national inquiry into the scandal.

Cooper accepted all 12 recommendations from a wide-ranging inquiry by Baroness Louise Casey, who looked into the role of ethnicity in the scandal. A large proportion of the perpetrators were men from Asian ethnic backgrounds.

The home secretary said in future there would be a formal requirement for ethnicity and nationality data to be recorded in cases of child ***ual exploitation, calling the failure to act decisively against the grooming gangs a “stain on our society”.

She said the 197-page Casey report, published on Monday was “damning”, exposing “deep rooted institutional failures” and a failure to “treat children as children”.

Cooper said some authorities were worried about “being seen as racist or inflaming community tensions”, and that Casey had unearthed “a timeline of failure from 2009-2025”.

The audit found that the ethnicity of perpetrators had been “shied away from” and is still not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators, preventing an accurate assessment to be made from the nationally connected data.

Local inquiries into child ***ual exploitation by groups of men have previously taken place in Birmingham, Oldham, Oxfordshire, Rochdale, Rotherham and Telford.

Seven men were recently found guilty of ***ually abusing two girls between 2001 and 2006 in Rochdale, both of whom came from vulnerable backgrounds and were known to social services.

Despite the lack of national data, the existing evidence showed “disproportionate numbers” of men from Asian ethnic backgrounds among suspects as well as convicted perpetrators, the Casey audit said.

Casey added that the failure to address questions regarding the ethnicity of perpetrators had done a “disservice to victims”. She said: “The appalling lack of data on ethnicity in crime recording alone is a major failing over the last decade or more.”

She said she had been “outraged, shocked and appalled” at the treatment of victims by authorities that were supposed to be protecting them.

“We are talking about multiple ***ual assaults committed against children by multiple men on multiple occasions, beatings and gang rapes,” Casey added.

Downing Street said Sir Keir Starmer believed that “the grooming scandal was one of the greatest failures in our country’s history”, but the prime minister has come under heavy criticism for his failure to announce a national inquiry sooner.

Kemi Badenoch, Conservative leader, said Starmer and Cooper had committed “another U-turn” and that the prime minister was guilty of “an extraordinary failure of leadership”.

In January Starmer accused opposition MPs calling for a national inquiry of “jumping on a bandwagon” and “amplifying what the far right is saying”. Elon Musk, the US tech billionaire, had criticised Britain’s handling of the scandal.

Downing Street said Starmer’s “bandwagon” comments were aimed at “ministers from the previous government who sat in office for years and did nothing to tackle this scandal”.

Number 10 said the national inquiry would be time limited and build on the work done by Alexis Jay, who carried out an independent inquiry into child ***ual abuse. Her work included a strand on grooming gangs.

Cooper said she accepted Casey’s recommendation that the law should be tightened up to make it clear that “an adult having penetrative *** with a child under 16 is rape, no excuses, no defence”.
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[mygiddypant]

I suppose that we could sit all day at the computer and post a photo of convicted pakistani rapist followed by you posting a vicor. I would then give you a link to some pakistanis convicted rapist from Bradford. You then put a link to a group of white convicted rapists and then I'll post some pakistanis from shefffield, Telfor, Oldham, Leeds, Huddesfield, Dewsbury, Manchester, Oxford and so on until you realise that the men I am showing are the rapists convicted of the grooming gang crimes commited on young white working class girls in the north of England and other places including Luton.

You can dilute the problem by injecting people not related to the scandel first highlighted in the the Jay report as well as the Casey report that forced this government to hold a national inquirey

I'm not sure what the point of all that was.

You seem to be inferring that I'm avoiding acknowledging the role of Pakistani gangs in this matter. Not at all.

I am accusing you, and others, of concentrating solely on that particular ethnic group. I have repeatedly pointed out that ***ual abuse is predominantly an event that happens in a context familiar to the abused. This is mainly the home, but could also be school or church.

The right-wing doesn't acknowledge that ***ual abuse covers all ethnic groups. Indeed it was found that something like 40% of men arrested at recent protests over immigrant housing had a record of marital abuse.

[frogmiller]

I'm not sure what the point of all that was.

You seem to be inferring that I'm avoiding acknowledging the role of Pakistani gangs in this matter. Not at all.

I am accusing you, and others, of concentrating solely on that particular ethnic group. I have repeatedly pointed out that ***ual abuse is predominantly an event that happens in a context familiar to the abused. This is mainly the home, but could also be school or church.

The right-wing doesn't acknowledge that ***ual abuse covers all ethnic groups. Indeed it was found that something like 40% of men arrested at recent protests over immigrant housing had a record of marital abuse.

If you really think that I am capable of that then you are as daft as a ****ing brush!

I put in the post on the thread that you were opposed to that although there were other offenders. You did not seem to read that bit!

My argument has always been and will be that all of the reports have ignored that the possibility of the perpetrators have been Pakistani! The Casey report has highlighted this fact and had caused the Labour government to commission a national inquiry prove whether it is true or not. The amount of arrests and convictions suggest that it is correct.

To be honest with you Giddy this info is available but isn’t easy to find. To accept it as a bloke from one of the towns involved in the scandal means that you could have missed something that could have helped one of the girls!

You could not but you probably know someone effected!