Flick ??Co-authored by researchers from 25 global institutions, the JME paper argues that condemning this abuse of children is simply based on “misleading, often racialised stereotypes” and “Western sensationalism”. Rather than the terrible act itself, the paper argues that the “derision” FGM receives from the West – particularly the idea that it occurs because of “a kind of brainwashing” – is what is actually “traumatic”. […]
The refusal to label FGM clearly is not benign. It rests on a deeply regressive assumption that when violence happens to black and minority girls, the usual standards of safeguarding can be suspended. Their pain must be contextualised, diluted, or endlessly debated in ways we would never tolerate if the victims were white British girls.
This is not progressive. It is racist.
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