With the recent surprise win for the left in the French elections, some may be tempted to think fascism is on the back foot. Unfortunately, that's not the ca...
Many Europeans know first hand that the streets are less safe than they used to be and which groups are causing it.
No. Many people* believe* that streets are less safe than they used to be, although actual facts and statistics show the opposite and it’s much safer now.
They also believe which groups are causing it, because both lies are told by the same right-wing propagandists (and amplified by media giving a shit about facts, context or anything else but attention and clicks). The actual groups causing more crime are also in the actual real statistics: far-right crime and xenophobic assaults are on the rise and massively impact total numbers.
Well, I know first hand and from friends and acquaintances that is has become less safe. The statistics don’t show what’s really going on.
I and others I know don’t go to places anymore where we experienced violence, robbery, and harassment. That doesn’t mean those places are now safe, that they have been taken over by a different demographic.
A friend of mine can’t use the park she lives next to anymore. After she was harassed several times, it’s not safe anymore. Only one case was reported to the police by her, who didn’t do anything about it.
Should she have kept going to the park until something more serious happened that warrants showing up as violent crime in the statistics?
Islamists are far right… Yes they might not mutually like white far right people but that’s the thing about an exclusionary fascist ideology, which both groups possess
No. Many people* believe* that streets are less safe than they used to be, although actual facts and statistics show the opposite and it’s much safer now.
They also believe which groups are causing it, because both lies are told by the same right-wing propagandists (and amplified by media giving a shit about facts, context or anything else but attention and clicks). The actual groups causing more crime are also in the actual real statistics: far-right crime and xenophobic assaults are on the rise and massively impact total numbers.
Well, I know first hand and from friends and acquaintances that is has become less safe. The statistics don’t show what’s really going on.
I and others I know don’t go to places anymore where we experienced violence, robbery, and harassment. That doesn’t mean those places are now safe, that they have been taken over by a different demographic.
A friend of mine can’t use the park she lives next to anymore. After she was harassed several times, it’s not safe anymore. Only one case was reported to the police by her, who didn’t do anything about it.
Should she have kept going to the park until something more serious happened that warrants showing up as violent crime in the statistics?
Antisemitic crime is counted as far right, even if the perpetrators are Islamists from Syria.
The statistics are misleading and don’t tell the whole story.
Islamists are far right… Yes they might not mutually like white far right people but that’s the thing about an exclusionary fascist ideology, which both groups possess
Islamists and Christians at the same anti-abortion or anti-LGBT protest are something to behold.