On stormfront you’ll read in massive subs such as r/soccer that Paris has a pocket of safety surrounded by pure crime. They’ll say shit like, “I went to Vienna and Budapest and not once did I feel unsafe”
You ‘felt’ unsafe? Are you just shitting your pants everytime you encounter an Arab or someone with slightly more melanin content? Like, almost every city I’ve ever been to where people say it’s unsafe is just a place with more minorities and I’ve never once felt unsafe.
Edit: check out this thread
Yes, but I also think sometimes the ‘crime’ they’re talking about isn’t racialized but instead a gut reaction to being forced to see the outcomes of the economic precarity we all exist within. Which is to say they’re also complaining about having to look at homeless people
this for sure, seeing a homeless person isnt ‘crime’ but to them it is. I dont even think they realize theyre doing it most of the time, its just that the news and the national conversation has conflated the two since 1980, so what do most of them know? See a homeless person, thats crime, be very scared now.
Yes, and even just referring to Chicago pejoratively has become a racist dogwhistle.
I’ve never been to Chicago but I’ve lived in Michigan and have heard the way people talk about Detroit. After visiting detroit I realize libs straight up just don’t like seeing decay and poor people. They think it’s an aberration and that their comfortable lifestyles are the norm while thses people must be doing something obviously wrong.
I walked around Detroit late at night after a show. Picture an urban sprawl with French gothic architecture, run down suburban homes, and black homeless people everywhere. Not onve did I feel threatened. I imagine since Chicago has more wealthy people still living there the sentiment that it’s crime infested is exacerbated ten fold
Yeah I’ve been to Detroit it’s… just a normal place. But some poor people and black people live there so ooh scary supposedly.
You might appreciate this article: https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/people-feel-unsafe-because-visible
They constantly wave around this site like it’s some kind of crucifix against evil http://heyjackass.com/
99.9% of the time
there are certain streets in the city that you absolutely shouldnt walk down with 500 dollars strapped to your forehead but even as a very small woman ive only been verbally harassed despite walking around a fairly large city somewhat regularly
if youre friends with homeless people it makes your walk nicer, had one guy i know yell at a guy for harassing me once, bought him a burger a week or two later lmao
in general i think being a mugger probably isnt worth it these days because so many people carry credit cards only now. so if someone mugged me theyd get my shitty old 100 dollar phone which probably isnt worth the effort. not signed in or have credit cards set up on my phone either so all theyd get out of it are phone numbers if they get past the lock screen. pick pockets are more likely so if you walk with your hands in your pockets youre fine. someone might break into your car if your car is one of the easier ones to break into without needing to smash windows. but like… dont have anything obvious for them to grab and theyll ignore it because they only do quick glances. having a shitty working class car is in your favor
you absolutely shouldnt walk down with 500 dollars strapped to your forehead
redditor: ok i shouldnt have done that but this is victim blaming
90% of the redditors that get mugged are probably running around in gucci clothes with 1000 dollar watches, a designer fedora, a tesla with 3 laptops in it, and a fat wallet sticking out of their asshole and doing a :shocked-pikachu: when they get mugged
To quote someone I saw on :reddit-logo: University of Chicago students have the most muggable faces.
The person also claimed to be a mugger in Chicago.
there are certain streets in the city that you absolutely shouldnt walk down with 500 dollars strapped to your forehead
There are streets you shouldn’t walk down with a croissant strapped to your forehead but French goblins gonna ohohohoho
if youre friends with homeless people it makes your walk nicer
Yeah being a shelter worker, it’s nice seeing friendly faces whenever I go to the rougher parts of town.
Anyways I don’t trust outsider opinions on cities. After 2020 I kept telling family that my city wasn’t actually burning down in riots and nobody would believe me. People get wild ideas about places they don’t live in.
Yeah, scams seem much more viable. I’ve had people attempt to scam me a whole bunch of times (The fare of the train literally JUST went up? I regularly take it, how come I’ve never heard of this? And how come it happens so much JUST to you?), but I’ve never thought anyone wanted to mug me.
I seem to recall reading that per capita, military bases have far more violent crime committed than the worst neighborhoods of any US city. So statistically, you are much more likely to be assaulted walking through Fort Hood at midnight than you are anywhere else, basically
With the added fun that the perpetrators will be completely ignored by the legal system
Domestic abuse is almost certainly under-reported because MPs cover it up. But the most dangerous thing to be by far is a woman on board a US Navy ship, where something like 10% of women per year are assaulted. Men have it a bit better, at 2.5% percent, but that’s still an extremely high number.
Yes.
thank u mr president. Just think it’s such a blatantly obvious dogwhistle people would stfu about it by now but i guess nazism is growing at a rapid pace :shrug-outta-hecks:
The dog whistles are becoming fog horns at this point
When people talk about the allies treatment of Germany post-WW1, I compare it to the treatment of Afghanistan currently, and guess what? Even though they hate Biden they’ll still support what was done to Afghanistan post-war, even though they’re comparable: ‘The Taliban are opening training camps’, right but one of the complaints of Germany was that they were required to reduce their military as well along with their spending on it, ‘The Taliban has to pay money for the harm they caused’, the Germans were also required to pay reparations for the harm they caused, etc etc.
There’s only one reason they stand up for Germany and not Afghanistan and it’s the okay/not okay emote (with lighter skin tones being okay, darker not okay) we have but can’t find at this moment.:
:us-foreign-policy:
(Thanks to @Azarova for the heads up!)
