Matthew Goodwin
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Actually, there are a couple of papers on that, Jordan. I'm sure you've seen, I think, Corey Clark. I've read a couple, I think, showing basically the feminization of higher education over the last 50 years. But there's something else, listening to you, that... that just came into my mind. I don't know if you've read it.
There's a book by a psychologist called Luke Conway that came out, I think, a year ago called Liberal Bullies. And what he has done, which is fascinating, is he's gone back and looked at all the old stuff on right-wing authoritarianism and the scales that they used comparing right-wing authoritarians with left-wing authoritarians. And of course, the old argument, this is going back
50 years of social science was that you don't get left-wing authoritarians, you only get right-wing authoritarians.
And the whole literature, right, has just been debunked because what Conway is saying, well, if you actually, if you change the scales, because they were measuring right-wing authoritarianism differently from left-wing authoritarianism, if you use the same scales on both, what you find is that so-called liberals are actually more prone to authoritarian impulses and tendencies than conservatives.
And if anything explains the last 15 years in Western politics, the kind of Great Awakening, you know, all of the fanaticism dogmatism that we saw around Black Lives Matter and the social justice movement. It's this take. I read his book and I was like, there it is. So basically, social scientists were misleading everybody. I would say maybe they knew about it.
Maybe they were just lying to people. And here we have evidence that if you identify as highly liberal, you are more prone to authoritarian impulses than conservatives.
the West is pretty consistent in showing that female scholars, especially young female PhD students, are consistently the most likely to endorse a range of cancel culture measures. They're the most likely, for example, to say that we should sacrifice academic freedom and free speech on the altar of protecting minorities from harm. So I think that's a big part of the story.
I mean, again, it's controversial. And the fact that we would struggle to have this debate, at an Oxford, you know, union debate or on Cambridge campus is itself a reflection of the problems within universities. I think it's an enormous part. And in politics too, by the way, I think if you look at the people who have been most dogmatic when it comes to the debates over migration, net zero,
who have refused to look at the issue of the rape gangs, have refused to give the country a national inquiry routinely. I mean, routinely, it's been prominent women in national political life. And I think there's also, by the way, been a lot of hypocrisy there, too.
I mean, if you just take the case of the rape gangs, you know, the whole Me Too scandal, you know, middle class, liberal, middle class, liberal, professional women who didn't say anything at all. about young white working class girls being raped, harassed, and abused by Muslim gangs. And, you know, there's just, I think people aren't stupid.
They can see a lot of this stuff that's playing out before them.
Yeah, so the first thing I would say is that this will go down in history, I think, as the biggest scandal in British society, one that much of the establishment deliberately ignored and downplayed for half a century. What we are talking about, to be clear, is the sexual exploitation of mainly young, white, working-class girls, often from very damaged, broken homes, vulnerable girls,
the organized industrial scale rape and sexual assault of those girls by predominantly Pakistani Muslim gangs of men operating in alliance with one another, trafficking those girls from one town to another, often having some kind of connections with police, social services. We have police officers who have been
arrested and being brought before court because of their involvement with these rape gangs. And the rumors of this really began, Jordan, from the 1970s, 1980s, but it wasn't really until 2011, when one or two rogue journalists started to talk about the issue, and some prominent political activists and campaigners too. But this was instantly branded a topic of far-right politics.
It was seen as low status to talk about it in Westminster. And then as the transcripts came out of these girls,
As the number of towns increased, as I say, upwards of 50 towns and cities across the UK, lots of young girls coming before court saying they were put on heroin, they were put on cocaine, they were told they were targeted because they were white, they were non-Muslim, and they were trash. They were white prostitutes. Those are words that were used in the court transcripts.
And as the evidence simply became unavoidable, we then started to get these local inquiries into key towns like Rotherham, a town where 1,400 girls at least were raped and sexually assaulted by these gangs, towns like Oldham and Telford. And it wasn't really until actually the beginning of 2025 –
that the release and the recirculation of some of those transcripts, in conjunction with Elon Musk drawing attention to it, basically forced Westminster, forced the elite in Britain to actually do something and talk about this crisis in a much bigger way. But even then,
They said, actually, we're not going to have a national inquiry into this issue, which is outrageous because this is clearly a systemic national crisis that involves social workers, police officers, Muslim communities, gangs of men. It's been going on for 30, 40 years. Some of these girls, by the way, have been murdered.
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