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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you cant handle a democratic election not going your way, maybe you dont belong in politics.

And maybe you shouldve curbed immigration instead of making it a wedge issue, and only having the far right party be for curbing it. Just a thought

[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Whipping up fear about brown immigrants is what the right does when there is no wedge issue.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

I thought that was a Mexican border only thing, turns out European leaders do the same shitty fear monger

I guarantee every coastie wants to rescue live folks, color doesn’t matter in the sea. It’s the politicians saying no to human lives

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty easy to do after 9/11, Nice, Vienna(2021), Dresden(2021), the list goes on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism_in_Europe

When multiple groups have declared Jihad against the west, a little more caution should be exercised.

Remember, immigrating is not a right.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I know all about that, they use the " brown immigrants are terrorists" in my country too in order to exploit people's latent racism.

To have a point you'd have to compare those instances to violence by Europeans against eachother, by being selective you're feeding a narrative that brown immigrants are more violent than Europeans. That's already been demonstrated to be false. You're being manipulated by fascists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alright, name the 122 terrorist attacks made by Europeans since 2015. Ill wait.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, even if we assume those 122 attacks were committed by immigrants, how does that compare to violent crimes committed by Europeans themselves? 122 incidents over 9 years is remarkably low for a single demographic. How many bad actors is that per event? How many immigrants are there total and how many committed these crimes?

It's racist fear mongering.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I said terrorist attacks, not violent crimes. Dont move the goal posts

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No ones moving goal posts. Give a ballpark of how many immigrants were involved in those 122 attacks.

You're making the argument that brown immigrants are more dangerous than Europeans and you're then trying to exclude all types of violent crime except that labeled terror attacks to obfuscate the reality that immigrants are statistically no more dangerous than Europeans themselves. It's dishonest.

Even in terms of terrorism, the majority has historically been committed by domestic groups (ex. nationalists, political extremists, separatists etc.), not immigrants. Again, this is very similar to my own country where domestic terrorism is actually the greater threat than that from immigrants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay, you want to move the goal posts. Tell me, per capita, who commits more violent crime? Muslims or non-muslims?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Per capita, men commit more violent crime than women. It's not even close. Do you support restrictions on men just based on their gender?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One is how youre born. The other is an ideology. What do you not understand about "Islam is an ideology"?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How does that address my point? The Y chromosome is the largest determining factor in violent crime, way more than any "ideology".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait, so you dont understand why racism and sexism are bad? You know they're bad without understanding why?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can admit that you were destroyed by facts and logic. It's ok.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right, Im just going to block you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You're obviously upset because you're a guy and you don't want to be excluded. Excluding Muslims doesn't affect you, because you're not Muslim.

You don't care about "violent crime". Your only real concern is not being in the out-group, because you really only care about hierarchy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or the everyone is just ignoring the issue.

Rhetorically because this conversation is going to go nowhere. What would need to happen for immigration to actually be an issue?

Because people that tell us low wages (not GDP increase but working class wages for locals), high house prices, and other things people mention like losing culture and crime increasing isn't an issue. So what would it take for it to be an issue.

A lot of people, usually the rich that own businesses and land and can make money off immigration, say it's not a problem. I think rather than choosing a side and ignoring the issues people should wonder what would be a bad outcome then looking at things after.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The rich making money off immigration isn't an issue with the immigrants, it's that we don't force companies to pay all their workers the same wage, regardless of status. That's a regulatory problem, not an immigration problem.

Because people that tell us low wages (not GDP increase but working class wages for locals), high house prices, and other things people mention like losing culture and crime increasing isn’t an issue. So what would it take for it to be an issue.

None of this is related to immigration. Immigrants aren't raising housing prices. With crime you have to actually prove that that's immigrants committing more crimes than Europeans and what kind of crime. They call brown immigrants criminals and rapists here too, and it's simply not true, they commit crimes at the same rate as citizens.

You have to understand that this is a pattern we see over, and over throughout history; when fascists want to seize control they blame immigrants for all of socieyies woes. And they do so only with rhetoric or twisted facts, not the truth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You never really answered the question though. What would have to happen for immigration to be a problem in your eyes? I'm just trying to get you to open you mind rather than sitting on your team. Look at the situation objectively first.

No its basic supply and demand for both wages and for housing. If you have a limited supply and demand increases prices can only increase. Is supply increases and demand the same wages go down.

Denmark has run the numbers for crime by country of origin which is direct proof. But then places like Sweden also have indirect proof like now having to keep a record of grenade attacks when they didn't 20+ years ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a real wonder why people with less possibilities can become influenced by crime, regardless of birthplace, and still countries push new residents into those situations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You mean bringing in people like that.

A country could you know. Not bring them in. Issue is solved then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not bring who in? What's the deciding factor, precogs evaluating if someone does crime in the future? Not bring people who are born there and already stuck in lower classes. The problems don't care about immigration, it's the bourgeoisie waging class warfare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just let less immigrants in. No need for a pre-cog.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not their fault, why punish so

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So you are moving to a new street, but suddenly it's not allowed because someone else maybe did something. You don't know why, what, who, but your rights have been lessened. That's how

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its not a right. Its not "a new street", its a country.

And to continue your metaphor, theres literally not enough houses on the street.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's plenty of houses. Street or city or country, it doesn't matter. There's no valid reason to prevent innocent individuals from choosing any of them. Sounds like a right, why wouldn't it be

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Canadians cant even find a house anymore, much less buy one. The UK is paving the country side. House supply is down, they literally cant build quick enough to handle the influx.

I think you and I have fundementally different ideas about immigration and what a country is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes. I don't see it as the root cause for issues which exist regardless of it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The matve population of canada is shrinking. The only reason its growing is immigration, and they literally cant build enough houses to keep up. Theres not enough construction workers and not enough hours in a day.

Its 100% the fault of immigration.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's pretty sad what is happening to the population of Inuit and First Nation Indians in Canada.

Forced assimilation and discrimination have really shrunk Canada's truly native population.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I know you were being snarky, but theyre a great example of why immigration is bad. They will never recover.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All those African colonies that France ruled for centuries; immigrants from those countries should be denied, just because they are ~~Black~~ immigrants?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not becayse theyre black, but because theres simply too many immigrants. A country can only handle so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well lots of countries have immigration requirements or points based systems. So it is obvious that countries already use means to choose which immigrants it wants.

This just needs expansion. You look at immigrants or children of immigrants that commit more crime than locals or contribute less than locals and you don't bring them in. Because bringing them in makes the country worse.

It's obviously an average but that is all immigration requirements are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't make sense, a new immigrant is in no way responsible for someone else's crime

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why don't they just let anyone in they? Why have rules on which people are allowed to immigrate and which aren't?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean bringing in people like that.

There is so much in this sentence to unpack im not sure where to begin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying they magically become different people once they are in the country?

A country can choose to let that person in or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Are you saying they magically become different people once they are in the country?

Do you honestly believe people think that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Lock your door and never go out.

What a solution!