Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime

• Djehngo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s generally not even Londoners re-posting crime “news” about the capital (we live there, so we know) it’s more certain people from rural areas who neither live, work or visit London.

  Those certain people are either the ones who have a chip on their shoulder about how London is a success despite not catering exclusively to white native born people, or people who just got sucked into an alternate reality where they read so much crime news that everyone in London must get stabbed once a year.

  There is also a healthy dosage of conflating per square mile and per capita crime

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  • tazeycrazy@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s probably russian bots and Americans that have never left the tristate area.

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• Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Be careful using the word “conservative” if you’re discussing UK politics - it’s literally the name of a (mainstream) political party.

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  • jpeps@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d like to think that the person from feddit.uk knows that! I obviously don’t know you’re background either but FYI I’d say that this sentence does just refer to a generally conservative person. In the UK we don’t really refer to individuals by their party name directly like Republican/Democrat in the US etc. Someone who literally votes Conservative you might refer to as a tory, though there’s not really parallels to other political parties. Sorry if this not news to you!

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    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      😭🔑m🎱‼️

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    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Regardless of the whole big c / little c argument I’d still be hard pressed to find one person that was alarmed with falling crime figures…

      I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that the poster meant a “knee-jerky, xenophobic, Reform / BNP / UKIP / English Alliance etc. voting Londoner” because, yeah, that headline would be counter to their narrative.

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      • jpeps@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think that’s exactly what they meant, and that they would be troubled by a headline that challenges their world view.

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