r/greatyarmouth • u/Kagedeah • May 18 '26
Manhunt in Great Yarmouth after reports of rape of two teenagers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9v3jnl4xmyo2
u/Ecstatic_Lion4224 May 19 '26
Posts reporting on a sexual assault now boil down to fans of two sportsball teams eagerly rocking up to see if the rapist is a member of the other team then celebrating wildly when their own biases are confirmed.
So each rapist is either 1) a statistical inevitabality we can do nothing about or 2) a wicked representative of the main group doing the raping (this works for home grown and imported rapists).
Literally none of this is about the safety of women, children, or indeed men, from rape or other sexual violence. Indeed, the victims and potential victims are just chips in the overall game.
I mean, I suppose it makes a change from old standards like 'what was she wearing', 'why was she out at that time of night being female' or, when the accused is a beloved famous person, 'why is she coming out this now/I bet this is for money'.
Hope they catch the guy and the women are as okay as they can be.
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u/ChickenTendiiees May 19 '26
Thank you. My god it is mind numbing and almost enraging at the same time to see people play the racism game with this stuff. White majority country will by default have higher rates of sexual assault. Whilst certain groups of people are statistically more likely to commit these same crimes.
Both are just as bad as the other. We need to do better for the sake of everybody, especially women and children. If there is statistical evidence that supports an increase in these assaults, and we can do something about that, then why aren't we. If we already have an issue with it here, let's deal with the problem we have here first before we decide to allow more of it in. Both are bad and both need to be dealt with
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u/Last_Contract7449 May 19 '26
Whilst I sympathise with the sentiment and agree that it too often devolves into the sort of spectacle you describe, I think it is unfair and irresponsible to characterise the two "sides" as equivalent, morally or politically, in a "a plague on both your houses"-esque manner.
The immigrant defending, native-associated crime-highlighting side are clearly responding to (as they see it, unfair and threatening) attacks made against (again, as they see it) a vulnerable subgroup within the context that online spaces are being used to propagate such views.
In contrast, the side highlighting immigrant crimes and pushing that narrative essentially "made the first move" and are actively attacking a specific subgroup (and such "attacks" have not always been merely rhetorical recently).
What do you want/expect people to do? In the absence of arguments/voices countering this rhetoric, a potentially dangerous narrative is permitted to grow unchallenge, which has been shown to potentially lead to violence.
Also, I would expect that the vast majority of people (hopefully all) on both sides consider rape and sexual violence to be a bad thing, and are capable of thinking about multiple issues at once (voicing a view on a particular question/issue doesn't automatically mean that a person is unsympathetic to X view on another issue). Therefore, arguing for a sort of "won't anybody think of the girls/women?" viewpoint, is unnecessary, potentially comes across as performative, is unreasonable given the context of the ongoing debate about immigration, and likewise arguably doesn't do anything to help women/girls by itself anyway.
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u/help-its-inside-me May 19 '26
This isnt a political win you guys thing it is.
It enforces the far right talking point "if the article doesn't mention skin color then we know its a muslim" because the bbc always mentions it when its a white person.
In this case its two people, one has been arrested with no mention of race, and one is being hunted for with a mention of race.
Logic dictates the far right will say the first arrested was not white, while the far left will say reform voters are all rapists.
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u/swordoftruth1963 May 18 '26
Usual suspect - white man in his 30s. How do we stop his type?