Your reporter’s “My Turn” column in the Sept. 5 issue is correct in that the systematic non-response to years of child sexual abuse and rape is “horrific.”

The rest is a rant against “political correctness” that drips with gender, race and class privilege. In Mr. Allmain’s view, somehow the police and local authorities are the victims in this case — beaten down by “political correctness” to the point that they could not do their jobs.

Saying the Rotherham crimes were ignored due to “political correctness” is a convenient excuse offered by politicians and police to cover up the real reason these horrific crimes were not prosecuted — class bias and misogyny.

Yes, the British tabloids and various right-wing politicians in London have complained that the perpetrators were not prosecuted because they were South Asian and Muslim. But, if true, it would be a near first: In Britain, as in the United States, people of color are overrepresented in courts and in prisons.

Had Mr. Allmain taken the time to read more thoughtful coverage in England, or even the New York Times, he would have learned that both the victims and their attackers were poor and working-class, many of the girls from dysfunctional homes, their rapists taxi drivers, restaurant workers and the like. A writer for The Guardian reported some authorities saw the whole situation as “nihilism of the underclass” and not worth the response that would have been given in a wealthier, more middle-class area. A recent New York Times article on the crimes reported:

“Some officers and local officials told the investigation that they did not act for fear of being accused of racism. But Ms. Jay (the investigator who brought this tragedy to light) said that for years there was an undeniable culture of institutional sexism.

Her investigation heard that police referred to victims as ‘tarts’ and to the girls’ abuse as a ‘lifestyle choice.’” “In the minutes of a meeting about a girl who had been raped by five men, a police detective refused to put her into the sexual abuse category, saying he knew she had been ‘100 percent consensual.’ She was 12.”

Your reporter describes the Rotherham situation as “anarcho-terrorism;” he is either uninformed of or is deliberately obscuring the meaning and history of that term. Far from being some neutral socio-political term, anarcho-terrorism was coined by Samuel Francis, a white supremacist, who wrote it means “we refuse to control real criminals (that’s the anarchy) so we control the innocent (that’s the tyranny).”

Some of Francis’s examples of tyrannical control of the innocent include taxes, seat-belt laws and multicultural school curricula. Some of his other beliefs include opposing “all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called affirmative action  and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races.”

Francis also called for “white racial consciousness,” saying, “It is all very well to point to black cotton-pickers and Chinese railroad workers but the cotton fields and the railroads were there because white people wanted them and knew how to put them there. Almost all non-European contributors to American history either have been made by individuals and groups that have assimilated Euro-American ideas, values, and goals, or have been conceived, organized and directed by white leaders.”

Somehow your reporter conflates these horrific rapes with the Federal Way school district’s investigation of reported teacher misconduct and efforts to combat disproportional discipline by imagining that calling racist acts “racism” will somehow lead to school bullies not being disciplined.

The undisciplined bully exists solely in Mr. Allmain’s head. I would be interested to know if Mr. Allmain is appearing on the editorial page as a Mirror employee or as a private citizen and if the Mirror endorses his beliefs. His editorial makes me wonder if he is capable of reporting in a city as diverse as Federal Way without his personal biases intruding.

Kathi Villaruz, Federal Way