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Date Posted: 25/06/10 7:41:28pm
Author: Peter Eveleigh
Subject: yawn
In reply to: Barbara 's message, "Yes" on 25/06/10 7:25:34pm

>There are plenty more of us, hopefully Mike Graham
>will not stop us getting through thye lines tonight on
>TalkSport.
>
>We are all proud to be standing up for law and order
>and against institutional child abuse, torture,
>corruption and fraud.



Don't miss the word "institutional". Barbara is not saying there are people who are flying under the radar. She is saying that the institution itself - the courts, police, social services, teachers etc actively support child abuse. She is sayingthe radar is set to let these people in.

Look at the definition of "institutional racism" on wikipedia, for instance "Institutional racism is distinguished from the racial bigotry, by the existence of institutional systemic policies and practices meant to place non-white racial and ethnic groups at a disadvantage in relation to the institution’s white members." The term is very new and I am not sure the Institutional child abuse has been coined yet or used by anyone apart from Babs, but she is clearly using it in the same sense.

Institutional racism exists in institutions which have been traditionally or historically racist and have yet to liberalise. The implication of Babs's terminology must be that in a similar way the police and social services have a tradition of regarding child abuse as acceptable and have yet to be brought into the 21st century.

But child abuse has NEVER been socially acceptable. It has always be abhorred by society. What HAS changed is that in the past it was talked about less and hushed up more....bnecause, as I say, it has always been shameful.

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