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Re:Facts about migration and crime in Sweden by pavlov on Friday February 24, 2017 @07:59AM (#13723187)
... authorities commonly seem to want to accentuate the positive and sweep any negativity under the rug.

Like the Trump administration, and the Hungarian government... No, wait, they do the exact opposite. I guess all authorities are not the same after all? And it's not just black and white either. Governments around the world consist of people with incredibly different backgrounds and political agendas. There is no single "authorities".

It is a common refrain these days that governments are trying to hide the facts to advance some kind of shadowy globalist agenda. It's good to be critical, but you need to be equally critical of sources that claim to be telling you the real truth.

Your comment contains three claims, and they're all either "I heard" or "seem to have". We should try to do better.

Re:Facts about migration and crime in Sweden by barking on Friday February 24, 2017 @08:13AM (#13723307)
Ok, I spent 10 minutes googling.

"Police in Ontario were forbidden to compile race-based crime statistics." https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/08/17/a-thorny-history...

"Charlie Hebdo attackers: born, raised and radicalised in Paris" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/-sp-charlie-he...

"The men responsible for the carnage [7/7 attacks] all grew up in Britain" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/77-bombings-l...

"According to the Young review, the disproportionate representation of young black and Muslim prisoners in the UK is now greater than that in the US." https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/24/rise-proport...

Re:Facts about migration and crime in Sweden by concinds on Friday February 24, 2017 @12:07PM (#13725462)
Many European countries also ban the collection (not just publication) of any statistics that involve ethnicity. Not just statistics on ethnicity and crime, but even simple demographic statistics (how many people in this city are X) are banned, regardless of how those stats are collected.
Re:Facts about migration and crime in Sweden by readittwice on Friday February 24, 2017 @10:30AM (#13724501)
Sure you need to be critical - but in both directions.

If you want to see the government trying to hide things, just look at Sylvester in Cologne and how long it took officials and the german TV channels to report/acknowledge what happened. If this information hadn't spread on Facebook, who knows if we would have ever known.

I am Austrian and until the migration crisis I've never felt misinformed. (BTW: Austria took more refugees per capita in than Germany) But this crisis changed that. It seemed the public media didn't just report, they wanted to persuade people to the right course. This is also about subtle things and therefore hard to prove: According to statistic refugees were about 70% male, but who was almost exclusively on the frontpage? Only women and children.

I can handle dubious or stupid Twitter/Facebook comments and chit-cat about what refugees supposedly did. The shocking thing was that public media was so one-sided. It is no coincidence that the name "lying press" got popular at this time. IMHO this was a general feeling that people had. That they didn't get the full story.