Comment by aszantu | Hacker News Reader

Comment by aszantu | Hacker News Reader

When I didn't have a job, I'd content for resources with refugees and migrants. There were some days, where I'd be the only white female on a room full of dark skinned ppl. I got high anxiety back then, this didn't help the situation. In the mall, after 17 o clock the refugee/migrant youth would group together and hang out. That didn't feel safe either

In my town when you got money from the bank mashine you'd get robbed by the local eastern European gang.

Many post deliverers didn't speak any german.

I'm left wing but I understand why ppl want things to change. When I told someone that I don't feel safe and they proceeded to call me right wing and nazi.

Also got cancelled by my friends when I said that someone fleeing their country wouldn't throw away their passports, it's right wing propaganda.

The few refugees I knew where always kind and friendly. But the kids couldn't even draw a square correctly.

I buy in a Syrian supermarket and a Turkish shop and I vote left wing. All the propaganda tries to paint it black/white. That's the issue...

I feel lucky living in Prague. We as a country dodged the bullet by being poorer than the West, being more xenophobic and having a language that is hard to learn.

Interesting observation and rarely spoken out aloud. What is left wing anyway, anti nukes?

More redistribution.

I am from South Africa, we are neighbors to Zimbabwe that has just "elected" the same corrupt government in that has been in control for 60 years, they claim to support redistribution and blame minorities and western governments for all their failings but in reality handing over productive land to peasant farmers has caused extreme poverty and starvation. That is the outcome of redistribution, the same happened in China and Russia.

Really just anzi-conformiy. I couldn't fit in anywhere so I'm not interested in center or right wing policy

> What is left wing anyway

Stuff like healthcare and education regardless of income.

> In the mall, after 17 o clock the refugee/migrant youth would group together and hang out. That didn't feel safe either

Basically that's because there are no squares or other spaces where they CAN hang out.

I had a similar experience in sweden. In the end they are just meeting their friends. It feels weird I think because whites don't really meet their friends like that. At most they go into a cafè/bar, but you need money for that. And in sweden cafè are really expensive, and pubs… well require you to drink alcohol, so there really aren't many around migrant areas.

Yes, in the 90ies they closed all the gathering places for kids in general, there's nowhere to go for them. So they hang out at the train station or do drugs at the cemetery.

In places where kids could hang out there were kickers or you could paint or work with clay. That's all gone, so now lots of them do crime or dumb things when hanging out.

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