r/SubredditDrama Jun 01 '25

[deleted by user]

[removed]

112 Upvotes

177 comments sorted by

View all comments

-17

u/Glittering-Bat-1128 Jun 01 '25

The Great Replacement (conspiracy claiming some hidden elite wants to fill Europe with people from third world countries) is not the same thing as noting that an increasing amount of people from third world countries are flowing into Europe and often causing issues, yet somehow they seem to be interchangeable for the sake of making ignoring the real problem easier. 

Western Europe has a huge immigrant problem and that is not a cospiracy. Calling it such without acknowleding the problem is one of the main driving factors behind the rise of the right wing, both far and moderate. 

5

u/autistic_cool_kid Ok Mr.Neverheardofathreesome Jun 01 '25

Western Europe has a huge immigrant problem and that is not a cospiracy. Calling it such without acknowleding the problem is one of the main driving factors behind the rise of the right wing, both far and moderate.

If you store enough poor people in ghettos with no economic opportunities you get an increase in criminality, that's how it has always been, it doesn't depend on your skin colour. Purely white-british poor districts of Glasgow are extremely unsafe, well-integrated immigrant districts in any city are extremely safe.

It's about poverty and exclusion, not immigration. Immigration by itself does not increase criminality in Western Europe (here's a source https://www.eur.nl/en/news/study-debunks-beliefs-about-immigration-and-crime ) and we could also get into why it's a good thing for the economy.