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    Default Re: Being assaulted and robbed isn't very much fun at all

    Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
    Wait, a single incident proves that Fragony was right all along? Is anecdotal evidence the new internet hipster thing?

    Is it really that hard to see that white people and non-immigrants can be violent, too?
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...azi-group.html

    It just doesn't make the news as much apparently as scary immigrants sell more papers.
    Actually, I was just poking fun at Frags, assuring him that we would find a way to lambast him regardless.

    My more serious posts on the issue, see above, take a different tone. I think the race/culture label of itself is not relevant here. Immigration that creates a surfeit of urban poor begets this kind of thing. That was true when the immigrants were Turks in Germany, Libyans in Italy, Irish in Boston, or Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands. "Race," to the extent that that is a valuable discriminator at all, is not the point. If it had been a quintet of Connaught-born "trash" who'd felt oppressed by the Stodgy Lutherans of Sweden they might have targeted Kadagar in the same way.

    The problems at hand are: controlling/deterring street crime and sensible immigration policy. Doesn't sound, from Kadagar's example (admittedly anecdotal in character -- but I am a qualitative researcher so I do not dismiss such) as though either is being well enough handled.
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