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You Can’t Protect Women by Ignoring Who’s Really Hurting Them

By Sean Ash

Let’s talk about the truth they don’t want to face.

Over 1.4 million women in the UK experience domestic abuse every year.

The majority of it?

Committed by white British men.

And yet, somehow, the national conversation keeps circling back to “grooming gangs” and “illegals.”

We’re being told to fear brown men, not the men already in our homes, our families, our communities.

Here’s the irony:

A national review of group-based child sexual abuse cases found that 83% of perpetrators were white.

And the party shouting the loudest about immigrants and grooming gangs, Reform UK, also happens to have the highest percentage of white British male supporters.

Funny, isn’t it?

The same group most statistically responsible for the violence…

is the one distracting you with stories about minorities.

This isn’t justice.

It isn’t protection.

It’s projection.

Even more striking is the silence around the victims who aren’t white.

ONS data shows that Black women report the highest rates of public sexual harassment, and mixed-race women experience the highest rates of domestic abuse.

But they are rarely centred in the national conversation.

Instead, we hear loudest from those already seen:

White men posing as protectors.

White women positioned as the default victims.

Meanwhile, women of colour, who suffer the most, remain unheard.

This isn’t just an oversight. It’s a pattern.

And it benefits the same groups shaping the narrative.

Take domestic abuse figures.

Reported rates among Black and Asian women are lower than for white and mixed-race women.

But ask anyone working in frontline support, and they’ll tell you, that doesn’t mean abuse isn’t happening.

It likely means it’s being under-reported.

Why?

Because of systemic distrust, cultural stigma, and the fear of reinforcing racist stereotypes.

Because survivors are stuck between silence and a system that was never really built for them.

So when politicians and pundits fixate on “grooming gangs” and “foreign criminals,” ask yourself:

Who are they really protecting?

And who are they willing to throw under the bus to do it?

Which brings us to another interesting point:

Reform UK, for all its shouting, doesn’t publish any data on the ethnic makeup of its membership.

Try finding it. You won’t.

Unlike other parties who at least attempt to track diversity, Reform UK stays silent.

Why?

Could it be that their membership is overwhelmingly white, and they know it?

Could it be they don’t want the public seeing the face behind the fear?

Because if we did, we might start asking harder questions.

Like: Who’s really committing the violence?

Who’s really being harmed?

And who’s controlling the narrative that keeps us looking in the wrong direction?

If you care about women’s safety, look at the data, not the propaganda.

If you care about truth, listen to who’s not being heard.

Because you can’t protect women by ignoring who’s really hurting them.