'They Come Over Here, Stealing Our Crimes...'

Another startling recent headline from Britain's right-wing press:  'Son of Top Chinese Communist Party Official Raped Over a Hundred Women in UK '.  It's the way that the emphasis seems to be upon the fact that this guy is a) foreign and b) a Communist (by association with his father, if nothing else), rather than that he's a rapist.  It says a lot about the priorities of the right that being a Chinese Communist is apparently considered a greater crime than sexually assaulting women on an industrial scale.  But I suppose that it ties in with their general world view that Britain should be for the British.  Even Britain's crime should be reserved for domestic offenders - how dare these bloody foreigners come here and start muscling in on our criminal activities?  Remember the good old days when, if a woman had the misfortune to be raped, she could at least take solace in the fact that she was the victim of a British sex offender.  Who, we all know, would do it far more efficiently, with less brutality, definitely take his hat off before doing the deed and undoubtedly make his victim a cup of tea afterwards.  In this case, just to make it even worse, the bounder wasn't just some foreign Johnny attempting to monopolise the entire sex offending business, but he was a bloody Commie to boot.  The bastard probably quoted from Marx and that 'Little Red Book' (which is undoubtedly some kind of vile Red Chinese guide book for twisted sexual perverts), while he was attacking those women.

These same prejudices underpin much of the right's characterisation of immigration into the UK - the idea that hordes of foreign, generally non-white, criminals are invading our shores.  According to this world view, there are bands of swarthy brigands roaming Britain's streets robbing, pillaging, murdering and raping as they go along.  This isn't unique to the UK - just look at how Trump and his cronies characterise the illegal immigrants coming over the US's southern border from Mexico: they're all part of crime cartels taking over US crime.  Somehow, they, like their UK equivalents, are worse than indigenous criminals.  (Say what you like about the Mafia, but at least they were born in the USA.  Except the ones from Sicily, of course).  In support of this world view, you find the right-wing press emphasising only those criminals who can be characterised as being somehow 'foreign'.  Just look at the coverage of 'grooming gangs' here in the UK - if we are to believe the press and the racists of the right, these are exclusively run by men of Asian origin.  Statistically, of course, it is a different story - the majority of sexual offenders targeting children, including 'grooming gangs' are actually white and British - but that's a story they don't want to hear as it doesn't fit their narrative.  Foreigners, especially non-white ones, are bad.  They only come here to commit crimes - crimes that should be being perpetrated by white Brits.  Damn it, it's a national disgrace that the title of 'Britain's Most Prolific Rapist' should be held by a Chinese communist!  Never mind the victims - for the right-wing press this is the real issue, it seems.