Today marks ten years since Andrew Norfolk @thetimes propelled the inaccurate, racial stereotype of “Asian sex gangs” into the mainstream. It’s shaped the past decade & caused numerous harms. It’s also been debunked both in academic research & the government’s own research. 1/3 https://twitter.com/drellac/status/1214183318989791232

The recent Home Office report & associated literature review showed that group-based child sexual exploitation cuts across all cultures/ethnic groups. It also dismissed the notorious @QuilliamOrg “grooming gangs report” as unreliable evidence. See https://twitter.com/drellac/status … 2/3

For early work on the dubious methods & claims in Norfolk’s exposé & its initial impacts see here. All our children deserve better than misinformation & attempts to dodge the reality of how common & cross-cutting child sexual abuse really is. 3/3 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306396813475983