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Hopefully you get a response in before the inevitable ban - what is the evidence for this claim? As far as I know the usual estimate is closer to 1,400. It's pretty clear that 200,000 white girls would be way more than 1 in 6 girls age 11-17 in Rotherham (population 100k) and other cities.
I seem to remember you had great doubts about death toll estimations due to the Holocaust, so I hope that you went over these numbers with similar scrutiny.
Up to 1 Million Girls total in the UK according to one Labour MP, but most estimates put it between 100k and 500k.
Rotherham was 1400 girls alone, and there have been dozens if not hundreds of similar gangs across the UK, many of which are still being covered up.
The 1 in 6 or 1 in 3 is taking the 1400 confirmed Rotherham rapes, applying it to the female 0-17 population of 24k, then subtracting out muslim girls (who do get raped by family but aren't included in the phenomenon of gang crime), the girls who are too young... And then apply a bell curve of ages effected.
So over 1 in 16 just by numbers (1400 out of 24000 girls under 17) , about 1 in 10-12 by ethnicity down to white girls, and then once you start narrowing it down to white girls 11-17, the targeted demographic, you get somewhere around 1 in 6, or 1 in 3 at the peak years, and depending on how many girls who were found dead of overdoses or never spoke of it you think were victimized.
As far as I can tell that labor MP basically made that number up based on nothing in particular.
Which estimates are these
The 1 in 6 and 200k numbers you quoted were not restricted to Rotherham alone (there are not enough people in Rotherham for 200k girls to be raped). What is the relationship between "1 in 6" and "hundreds of thousands"?
1 in 6 in the most affected cities.
Which cities?
Rotherham
I already posted a breakdown of the city in reply to you.
https://www.themotte.org/post/1322/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/282955?context=8#context
So 1 in 6 is just in Rotherham. Okay, that seems correct (though I wish you had said "affected city" to be more exact) and has nothing to do with the "hundreds of thousands" figure.
Where is "hundreds of thousands" coming from? Clearly that's not just Rotherham, so where is this number from?
There were Dozens if not hundreds of cities that had Grooming gangs like this, Rotherham is simply the most famous.
Can you give list of 100 such cities?
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