Alternate realities.

There have been instances where some left wingers were involved in a conspiracy of silence through fear of stoking racism, and that their assumption that certain ethnic or religious groups were inherent victims blinded them at times to evils a few of them might have been perpetrating.

Most notably in the cases of the Pakistani paedophile gangs where a conspiracy of silence prevailed along with a marked reluctance to believe that victim groups could actually be perpetrators. It was certain that once known, far right racist extremists would use the issue to whip up hate, as they have done. Nevertheless this does not justify allowing such crimes to go unpunished. And cultural assumptions about non-muslim girls being fair game is something some on the left have been most reluctant to acknowledge. But I should also point out that utterly negative assumptions by the police that have nothing to do with the left, that these girls were low life individuals from the wrong side of the tracks and not worth wasting time on was a factor too. And the grooming gangs knew this which is why they targeted such girls.

But congratulations. You have actually hit upon a bona fide example where a conspiracy of silence existed amongst some elements of the left. I however was never part of it and acknowledge that it happened and condemn it.

But more generally this just reiterates another of my points about the nature of human psychology. We can all be potentially prone to it for the reasons I described in an earlier post, but most of the conspiracy thinking in recent years seems to be most obviously apparent on the right to everyone but themselves, perhaps because it is their long cherished beliefs which are most readily and increasingly often colliding with demonstrated reality.