Normchacho said:
No, no,no. Lets clear this up right now. What you said isn't bad because it's offensive. Actually, I don't know when that became the "go to" to defend an ignorant statement, but it needs to stop. The problem with what you said isn't that it's offensive, it's that it's ignorant. Those are very, very different things. What you said didn't come from a place of understanding. Offensive or not, it was an ignorant thing to say. Now that we have that out of the way, lets talk what's wrong with your actual statement. Any time that you have a group of people move into a culturally different area en masse you see large spikes in crime. Between 1890 and 1900, 1.4 million Italians immigrated to the United States. 1.4 million people in a time when it was much more difficult to immigrate, and in a time when the U.S. had 1/4 the people it does now. You know what happened? Crime went through the roof and stayed there for decades. Because of that, Italians faced very real discrimmination for much of the late 19th, and early 20th century. The same thing happened when the Irish arrived in the mid 1800's. It's a huge part of why the U.S. was so reluctant to take refugees during WWII. The connection between immigration and crime has nothing to do with race. |
Not race, culture. Not all cultures are meant to live with others.
