Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers.
Signatories include the musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar as well as Labour, Green and independent MPs including Kim Johnson, Ellie Chowns, Diane Abbott and Zarah Sultana.
"We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division,” the letter says.
The open letter, titled Women Against the Far Right, follows a surge in protests outside accommodation housing asylum seekers and far-right attempts to exploit a number of cases of alleged sexual crimes involving asylum seekers.
Signed by; Leftist women from good neighbourhoods.
…how convenient for them.
Yeah. The truth is, a lot of these immigrants have very problematic attitudes towards women, to put it mildly.
This is rather tone deaf.
Is that the truth?
Or is it the truth that in every western country most sexual crime is committed by a man close to the victim?
Would you rather trust a priest or an imam with you children?
Immigrants are vastly more likely to be VICTIMS of sexual violence than perpetrators.
Conservative men have very problematic attitudes toward immigrant women and women in general, to put it mildly.
!selfawarewolves@lemmy.ml