Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 9 hours agoBe careful using the word “conservative” if you’re discussing UK politics - it’s literally the name of a (mainstream) political party.
Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 9 hours agoBe careful using the word “conservative” if you’re discussing UK politics - it’s literally the name of a (mainstream) political party.
jpeps@lemmy.world 8 hours 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!
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 8 hours 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.
jpeps@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I think that’s exactly what they meant, and that they would be troubled by a headline that challenges their world view.
yakko@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
Almost. The thing with the conservative mindset (referring to right wing authoritarianism generally, not Tories in particular) is that they are motivated by fear of others. Sorry for causing confusion, I’m not from here originally and I don’t even make sense back home, sometimes.
The graph illustrates a divergence between real knife crime and fears about knife crime on X (where the blame is seemingly laid on monetisation of posts).
The dot I’m connecting mentally here is that preferential treatment is being given to fear-based posting about crime and minorities, which is exactly what you would do as a billionaire who wants to buy a mass media platform. A tale as old as semaphore, that.
So, the idea of a right wing Londoner getting spooked by suspiciously boosted, factually misleading scare content promoted by an even richer, more right wing bastard kind of makes me laugh. They’re driving each other crazier and crazier all the time, and ultimately it’s not all that funny.