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Coventina

(27,172 posts)
Sun Jan 10, 2016, 05:40 PM Jan 2016

Germany on the Brink

From the New York Times:

ON New Year’s Eve, in the shadow of Cologne’s cathedral, crowds of North African and Middle Eastern men accosted women out for the night’s festivities. They surrounded them, groped them, robbed them. Two women were reportedly raped.

Though there were similar incidents from Hamburg to Helsinki, the authorities at first played down the assaults, lest they prove inconvenient for Angela Merkel’s policy of mass asylum for refugees.

That delay has now cost Cologne’s police chief his job. But the German government still seems more concerned about policing restless natives — most recently through a deal with Facebook and Google to restrict anti-immigrant postings — than with policing migration. Just last week Merkel rejected a proposal to cap refugee admissions (which topped one million last year) at 200,000 in 2016.

(snip)

As Hudson notes, these trends have immediate implications for civil order — young men are, well, young men; societies with skewed sex ratios tend to be unstable; and many of these men carry assumptions about women’s roles that are diametrically opposed to the values of contemporary Europe.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/opinion/sunday/germany-on-the-brink.html?_r=0
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The poor dears have no clue that it's wrong to grope or rape women!

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doc03

(35,382 posts)
1. Two women were raped, I thought it was dozens? Not saying that isn't bad but I would bet
Sun Jan 10, 2016, 05:45 PM
Jan 2016

there were more than two women raped in Germany by German men that night.

Coventina

(27,172 posts)
2. Dozens of assaults were reported as enacted by organized gangs.
Sun Jan 10, 2016, 05:48 PM
Jan 2016

Yes, rape is a horrible crime that is common in both European and Islamic societies.

However, roving gangs of men intent on preying on women brazenly in public is something new in contemporary Europe.

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
4. Infuriating choice of words: "young men are, well, young men"
Sun Jan 10, 2016, 05:49 PM
Jan 2016

So, young men are young men. So f'ing what?

Coventina

(27,172 posts)
5. I know, that line infuriated me as well.
Sun Jan 10, 2016, 05:51 PM
Jan 2016

As if young men are assumed to be sexual predators, and therefore this behavior is "normal."



Misogyny is everywhere......

pampango

(24,692 posts)
6. Written by conservative Ross Douthat. Interesting to get the conservative perspective on
Sun Jan 10, 2016, 05:53 PM
Jan 2016

Germany's refugee situation.

Coventina

(27,172 posts)
8. Thanks for the info. I was unaware of the author's political leaning.
Sun Jan 10, 2016, 05:59 PM
Jan 2016

It sure explains his "boys will be boys" attitude I pointed out in the OP.

 

LittleBlue

(10,362 posts)
7. How strange. Suddenly the "boys will be boys" excuse emerges
Sun Jan 10, 2016, 05:54 PM
Jan 2016

After gang assaults on women, suddenly we see "boys will be boys" op-eds published in the NYT.

Coventina

(27,172 posts)
9. Yeah, it's a pretty deft defense of rape culture while pinning the blame on liberals.
Sun Jan 10, 2016, 06:01 PM
Jan 2016

Sad to see that the NYT felt it was worthy of print.

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