Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime
jpeps@lemmy.world 10 hours agoI think that’s exactly what they meant, and that they would be troubled by a headline that challenges their world view.
Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime
jpeps@lemmy.world 10 hours agoI think that’s exactly what they meant, and that they would be troubled by a headline that challenges their world view.
yakko@feddit.uk 10 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.
jpeps@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Thanks for clarifying and sorry for speaking for you 😅
To be fair, as far as I can tell the stats here are a bit misleading. Hospital visits from kinfe crime are down, but general knife crime was at its highest in 2025. I don’t know what the specifics are of that though.
yakko@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
You’re good. I don’t mean to downplay the importance of tackling knife crime, but my view is just that it ultimately stems from economic inequality, rather than it being too easy to get knives or whatever. People in jail get stabbed too, after all.
jpeps@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That’s fair. I don’t have the knowledge to back it up but I would assume that a reduction in knife-based hospitalisations represents a reduction in gang violence even if there is still a lot of individual knife crime.