Re:The U.S. Is Bullying Europe Like Never Before
by ballmerpoint on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:32AM
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> > The only issues that we do still have is a lot of latent racism in small towns and concentrations of crime (across all cultures, including those lily white Dutch) related to drugs and such. The people that want to blow this out of proportion are the ones on the far right...
> The way you phrase it suggests that the crime problem is independent of immigration
Not really. It’s still possible to “blow this out of proportion” even if the distribution does not factor along immigration status.
> The people have every rational reason to oppose immigration if such a rise in criminality is the outcome.
It’s not rational to respond to a 5x prevalence (simply using your figure for the sake of argument) as if it were 10x or 100x, and that seems closer to jacquesm’s point.
> The way you phrase it suggests that the crime problem is independent of immigration
Not really. It’s still possible to “blow this out of proportion” even if the distribution does not factor along immigration status.
> The people have every rational reason to oppose immigration if such a rise in criminality is the outcome.
It’s not rational to respond to a 5x prevalence (simply using your figure for the sake of argument) as if it were 10x or 100x, and that seems closer to jacquesm’s point.