wrong order.
SD started rising before the “immigrant wave”, since we’ve had high immigration numbers since the 70s, but the shootings and bombings only started five years ago. they’re mostly being carried out by people who were less than ten years old during that time. so the violence is, in a way, home-grown.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 5 days ago
According to wikipedia their support was at around 4% in the 90’s, 5.7% in 2010, 17.5% in 2018 and 20% in 2022.
There was a peak in immigration in the '70s, but that was still only half of what it was in 2015. I doubt it’s just a coincidence that their support seems to correlate pretty neatly with the number of immigrants. I never claimed that it’s the gang violence driving the increased support - it’s the immigration itself. The rise in violence just makes it easier for them to say “I told you so.”
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lime@feddit.nu 5 days ago
gotta look at that graph per capita, sweden had a much smaller population in the 70s.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 5 days ago
What does that have to do with anything? Sweden’s population has grown from 8 million in the '70s to 10.5 million today. That’s 2.5 million more people - and 1.9 million of them are immigrants. The number of immigrants per capita has increased significantly since the '70s, not decreased.