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Originally Posted by Undertoad
There may be a little of everything in the mix. Cultural tendencies. Racial biases. Underprotection of children. Poor policing. Poor management of policing. Overapplication of political correctness. Groupthink that excuses the behavior. Groupthink that encourages the behavior.
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Why justify public endorsement of corruption, links to major crime, irresponsible adults, a demented press, no checks and balances in the local government or the many higher levels of government, prosecution of top mangement where all this stuff must have tacit or overt approval, and justification using groupthink as an excuse? This could only occur when adutls in mass numbers acted as children. Are you saying even priests, ministrers, and rabbis can be excused for condoning this? Something this large could only exist when virtually all powers that be were complicit.
Aircraft crashes do not happen because everyone screws up. It happens when each one responsible person does not do his job. That is why investigations are conducted. To discover why each responsible person - who by themselves could have averted the whole thing - did not do their job.
Number of people who did not do their job, so that children in mass numbers could be sexually attacked, was massive. Groupthink can only occur when adults act like children rather than think for themselves as adults are required to do. Yes many adults are still children. But an entire town had nothing but adults with child mentalities? An entire town was that mentally deficient, morally bankrupt, and overtly corrupt? And that is an excuse?
Groupthink says the entire town should be prosecuted as accessories to the crime - if we are responsible. Or groupthnk is an excuse also used by many to excuse the Catholic Church for condoning and protecting pedophilia. Groupthink also justified the Halocaust. So groupthink is a valid excuse?
Plenty of excuses somehow justify what happened in Rotheram. Excuses that conclude we do not want to hold anyone responsible. Same groupthink is why the Catholic Church still protects pedophilia today.