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Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by PeekPoke on Thursday November 16, 2017 @08:12AM (#15712354)
and the demographics of the offenders are.....?
Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by raker on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:04AM (#15713725)
I've heard that it's the Swedish government itself that is hiding those answers. Can that accusation be substantiated?
Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by lj3 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:16PM (#15714453)
Yes, it can. There are still people on the ground in Sweden with cell phones, like PeterSweden[0].

[0]: https://twitter.com/PeterSweden7/

Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by peapicker on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:47AM (#15713582)
This is important and often omitted information by journos.
Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by chii on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:51AM (#15713632)
When you want to push an agenda, doing it by omission is the easiest way.
Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by raker on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:06AM (#15713736)
Yesterday's Chinese Social Media propaganda article is an interesting application of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15708560
Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by mythrwy on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:56AM (#15713664)
From the article:

"survey contains no answers as to why a certain type of crime increases, and analysis is needed to improve understanding of the reasons for the increase, it said."

I'm guessing the average Swede has already done this "analysis" but hey, you can never have too many high paid think tanks :)

Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by dguaraglia on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:02AM (#15713708)
and the assumption that demographics rather than socioeconomic background drives people's behavior is called... ? (Hint: starts with "b" and ends in "bigotry")
Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by porfirium on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:05AM (#15713729)
Being poor makes you rape. It's logic.
Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by sctb on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:46AM (#15714132)
If you won't start commenting civilly and substantively we'll ban this account like the others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by dguaraglia on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:45AM (#15714125)
Being foreign makes you rape. It's logic.

How about: "we don't even know who the alleged rapists are, so maybe we shouldn't form an opinion on their skin color being different before we jump to conclusions"?

Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by folknor on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:14AM (#15713806)
It also obviously excuses your behavior regardless of what you do.

Let's say you're a selfmade man with working class background parents, and you worked two jobs while going to school, and now operate and run your own business, making enough money to support your family and have a nice life.

Apparently, because someone comes from a different socioeconomic background, they're entitled to take whatever they want from you.

It's logic.

Re:Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offences Reach... by dguaraglia on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:44AM (#15714113)
Wow, nice way to setup a really weak straw man! It's got the whole self-made man story there just for extra "relatable" points. Amazing job!

I didn't realize that now pointing something out is condoning it. Would you say that by pointing out demographics might be playing a factor, the original poster was condoning their behavior?