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Moral Panic

The entire article needs to be rewritten to be more in line with the umbrella article formerly titled "Grooming gang moral panic in the United Kingdom". 89.240.226.91 (talk) 22:56, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Why, because you're a rape apologist?

Why on earth is the title of this referring to moral panic? I decided to look at wiki for info on this topic and you have decided to use this leading title? Why? Who did this? Why isn't their disagreement about this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.69.43.108 (talk) 08:36, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

there was massive disagreement but they banned anyone who objected. 2407:7000:B215:5400:D869:D7A8:F49C:8A08 (talk) 18:28, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

https://unherd.com/newsroom/wikipedia-labels-grooming-gang-scandal-moral-panic/ 2407:7000:B215:5400:D869:D7A8:F49C:8A08 (talk) 18:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

You really let the mask slip with your previous edits - @89.240.226.91 162.222.63.62 (talk) 13:16, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Judging by this person's wording in their unblock requests, specifically this line:

"I am here to incite hatred and violence against what the British government deems, acceptable targets. Those being whites and Christians."

I feel quite confident in saying this person is a troll, acting as a caricature of someone in a minority ethnic group in the UK. This is not worth responding to. Michaelofg (talk) 23:07, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

This article needs to reflect the truth

Calling them Asian just covers up the fact that they are Pakistani or South Asian 104.163.169.147 (talk) 05:43, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

"Pakistan" appears 30+ times in the article EvergreenFir (talk) 05:55, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Second paragraph - "during Keir Starmers tenure"

Paragraph seems politically motivated and appears to be written and positioned tactically to link Starmer to the controversy. The references are poor, the times article is right-biased and also behind a paywall so can't be fact checked. The other reference to a full fact article is discussing a different topic; (Jimmy saville Prosecutions) but is described on the citation as covering all of Starmer's CPS prosecutions. SciFiG (talk) 15:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

It's unnacurate for the citation to state to cover all of Starmer's CPS cases when only one is mentioned in the linked source. This is a different sex scandal to the one mentioned in the source. Thus agree this needs amending. --150.143.27.183 (talk) 18:44, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

I agree. The Times article does not mention Starmer and the FullFact article is about another case entirely. Chris55 (talk) 21:03, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Regardless of whether the accusations against Starmer are justified or not, when the richest and one of the most famous people in the world openly attacks the British Prime Minister because of this, it does have a certain Wiki relevance. The whole Rotherham issue is now getting more attention in the global media than ever before. It should now be a matter of formulating possible developements neutrally and calmly. At the moment, Starmer and Musk are not even mentioned in the article, additions could be added further down first instead of in the introduction, depending on whether it is only news for one day or a longer, dangerous scandal for Starmer. --2003:E1:F70E:1D00:1C3B:EF28:1EB6:24E8 (talk) 12:25, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Sources from January 2025

Looking at the recent edit history, it looks like people want to add new content, but could be in need of some reliable sources. I think the main reason that so many articles have been coming out at this particular time is because Elon Musk has been tweeting about this. I hope these can help.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/04/elon-musk-uk-germany-canada-far-right/

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/how-rotherham-bosses-have-reinvented-themselves-since-grooming-scandal-6rl0gpd3m

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/rotherham-grooming-gang-rapes-sexual-offences-yorkshire-nb0n9vzj2

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy47jm41rgmo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgn2wvxx5qo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4xnv02nr0o

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/child-rape-scandal-dominating-uk-politics-after-musk-criticism-2025-01-06/

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-starmer-criticises-those-spreading-lies-misinformation-online-2025-01-06/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/world/europe/uk-grooming-gangs-elon-musk.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/world/europe/starmer-musk-uk-child-sexual-abuse.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/opinion/elon-musk-britain-sex-trafficking.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/world/europe/elon-musk-britain-social-media.html

https://www.barrons.com/news/uk-child-sex-scandal-at-heart-of-musk-attacks-c948843a

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/06/why-is-elon-musk-attacking-keir-starmer-over-grooming-scandal

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/08/does-the-uk-need-another-national-inquiry-into-and-sexual-abuse-gangs

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/03/musk-accused-of-politicising-of-young-girls-in-uk-to-attack-starmer

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/04/grooming-gangs-scandal-cover-up-oldham-telford-rotherham/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/uk/starmer-musk-child-sex-abuse-intl-gbr/index.html

A Plumbing I Will Go (talk) 05:51, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Why is Misplaced Pages indulging far-right fantasy?

This article reads like something out of the Tommy Robinson far-right handbook. It's quite stunning to see. I recommend that this article be indefinitely extended-protected until the Misplaced Pages community can get a grip of what is clearly a problem of far-right bias. Rosencrantz2 (talk) 23:53, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

protection/semiprotection is for articles that have recent patterns of high vandalism or edit warring by new-ish users.

i haven't had a chance to look at this article, but if folks are posting right wing stuff on here and nobody is fighting it, then pre-emptive ECP wont' really fly for most admins. someone has to identify and clean up the article. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 00:27, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

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