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.
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!)
Yeah, it’s all racism.
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.
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
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.
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.
Granted, this was several years ago when I was working in France and traveling around on my vacation, but Vienna then felt way more like a small pocket of safety surrounded by pure crime than Paris did. You step off the Ringstrasse and straight into an entirely different economic strata. I usually traveled with my friend, and being two short women wandering around Paris felt fine, but we were looking over our shoulders walking to our hostel in Vienna. :shrug-outta-hecks:
That’s cause Vienna is a real city, Paris is for rich people and tourists
That makes sense. It’s also funny because I live in an area that people are convinced is a war zone (and yeah, the crime rate is relatively high, but we’re not dodging bullets daily), but it’s home and normal to me, so I don’t worry. I suppose there’s something about being in an unfamiliar place that makes things feel more dangerous.
When I was in Vienna a few years back, I wandered every direction and suburb all day for a week without any worry or bad feelings. Maybe I was just lucky, but I’m also not sure what’s the issue with just being in a ‘different economic strata’. Quite a few European cities have visibly run-down areas, but I was never anywhere that felt unsafe.
