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“There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future – that community asks for and gets chaos”.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003).
Moynihan was writing about the collapsing black American community at the time 1960s. As predicted by him that community has the predicted chaos. Though the UK afro Carribbean has followed this path too, so have the “white” poor in many “sink” estates. The debate linked here illustrates the deep problem. Obsessing about Andrew Tate as has become usual, a useful question is raised “how is it Tate appears so popular”? One easy answer is because teenager’s parents and more likely teachers say he’s just so cool and exciting(it’s not what they say but in going on about how individual, powerful and scary he is they are just daring their young to have a look). A more complex one is indeed, well who are the “good roll models”? After all practically the only one named is … Andrew Tate. And it’s stutters to a stop. As the real core of the problem is denigrating fathers and fatherhood, actively supporting family breakdown and coming up with no positive idea to guide boys into men. Senator Moynihan wasn’t the only one to note this, JB Priestly did so here.
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What isn’t grasped in our discourse is that stable family structures don’t have to conform to “our” idea (one we’ve denigrated anyway). The briefings I had 8 years ago about grooming gangs were very clear. The reason the girls and boys were targeted was because they were well outside the culture. Those same gangs would never target their own girls and boys and will protect “their” women and girls. Like “untouchables”, slave tribes, enemies the victims were so “foreign” they were/are indeed legitimate targets. Certainly no one within the community would care about them because they’re beneath them. Helping this was confirmation from the Police and authorities that even in “our” culture no one thinks they( the girls boys and women) had any value.
The mistake is believing all cultures are really similar, they aren’t. The gynocentrism in the Pakistani Grooming Gang’s is entirely maintained in the protection of their own women, this doesn’t extend beyond the family linked clan/community. The same impulse to protect females, but more choosy than “western”chivalry.
Islamists pick up converts . From the “broken” host communities. Not least because their faith has plenty of roll models and responsibilities for men .
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This is DESPERATELY needed!!
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A good example is this https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/soaring-numbers-jobless-young-women-000100282.html
The actual story is that the UK is still well ahead of other OECD countries on young women in work or training. This pattern with females has remained much the same for a decade. Significant factors for “neets” are young mothers and day at home partners. Completely missed out is that for that same period young men had very much lower numbers of NEET. For obvious reasons they aren’t likely to be young mothers or likely to be ill (or at least getting sickness benefits). Unmentioned here, because it only talks about females, is the startlingly rapid increase in male NEETs largely as a result of males having “mental health” problems. To the extent it has overtaken the actually fairly constant number of females. Frankly any interventions for females are unlikely to make much of a dent in figures that have remained much the same for more than a decade. Whereas getting a handle on and reversing the sudden and dramatic increases in male NEET would make a huge difference in numbers and economic activity. Having a minister for men might add balance to such reports and more accurately reflect where time attention and resources might most usefully directed!
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