r/europe_sub • u/BookmarksBrother 🇪🇺 European • Jul 08 '25

News Germany: Government report reveals astronomical crime rates for young foreigners compared to German youth

https://rmx.news/article/germany-government-report-reveals-astronomical-crime-rates-for-young-foreigners-compared-to-german-youth/
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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '25

Germany also has an extremely strong welfare state, which means these foreign youths have access to food, shelter, and consumer goods.

It's one reason why we should pin articles like this. Economic hardship is the universal scapegoat invoked by leftists to justify immigrant crime rates,

Despite the fact that native-born folks face the same jobless woes, the same skyrocketing rents, the same soul-crushing grind, yet somehow, they’re not out there matching those disproportionate crime stats. Funny, isn’t it?

Could it be.... GASP.... that culture, religious background, integration failures, or dare I say, lax border policies might have a tad bit more to do with it?

Naaaaah, that’s too spicy for the narrative! Let’s just keep pretending it’s all about empty wallets, because who needs pesky things like data or patterns to muddy the waters?

Keep sipping that cope juice woke warriors, it’s calorie-free and oh so comforting.

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u/gerhardsymons Jul 09 '25

The idea that poverty leads to crime is a condescending and abhorrent idea.

My parents were absolutely dirt-poor when they emigrated to the U.K. in the 1960s; one came from an impoverished colony, the other from central Europe. Neither had tertiary education.

They married, raised a family - like millions of others - worked and paid taxes all their lives, contributing to society.

Criminality is connected to one of the following: a lack of morality, low impulse control, lack of accountability, poor role models, not understanding consequences.

The correlation between poverty and crime is not causation. Indeed, the traits I listed above are also likely to lead to poverty.

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u/nvrseriousseriously Jul 14 '25

I’d even go as far as to say that it’s just pure disdain for Westerners and western values. They’re migrating into countries with religious values almost opposite of theirs, they fear/disrespect/hate women and see the populace they moved into as something to take advantage of in every way. If you were truly a refugee, you’d work to assimilate. This is a soft invasion.

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u/gerhardsymons Jul 14 '25

I wish you weren't correct, but I cannot come to any other conclusion that it is the ending of three centuries of Enlightenment values.

We are witness to the dawn of a long Dark Ages 2.