Hacker News Reader

Comment by qwerty11111 | Hacker News Reader

Obviously controversial, but this could be one of the reasons some may fear immigration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaul...

Which is one of the worst examples ever. It was so highly politizised at the time. But you have point, it actually helped to form a certain narrative and a lot of people followed that narrative.

How is it a bad example? From Wikipedia itself...

> On 7 June, a Federal Criminal Police Office report confirmed that most of the perpetrators were of North African origin and had arrived in Germany during the European migrant crisis. Investigative results about the perpetrators were congruent with witnesses' statements.[48]

Because it was one particular case and the numbers have been looked at isolated. That and the fact that the first reports have been exagerated. Not to even speak about the way right wing groups used these reports...

I'll leave it to you to research crime numbers like rape, theft andn such for carneval in Cologne or the Oktoberfest in Munich. Because These are the numbers that provide the context.

Disclaimer: That does not in the slightest way imply that any of These cases are defendable, the least of all rape. Still, context helps to prevent knee-jerk reactions.

So because of one example, you are attributing criminal behavior to a whole group of people? Sounds like textbook racism to me.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com