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From the New York Times:
ON New Years Eve, in the shadow of Colognes cathedral, crowds of North African and Middle Eastern men accosted women out for the nights 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 Merkels policy of mass asylum for refugees.
That delay has now cost Colognes 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.
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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 womens 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!
doc03
(35,382 posts)there were more than two women raped in Germany by German men that night.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)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)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)So, young men are young men. So f'ing what?
Coventina
(27,172 posts)As if young men are assumed to be sexual predators, and therefore this behavior is "normal."
Misogyny is everywhere......
pampango
(24,692 posts)Germany's refugee situation.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)It sure explains his "boys will be boys" attitude I pointed out in the OP.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)After gang assaults on women, suddenly we see "boys will be boys" op-eds published in the NYT.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)Sad to see that the NYT felt it was worthy of print.