• Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    It’s interesting how Europe was seen as this much more tolerant and advanced society before the 2010s.

    One little refugee crisis and they immediately made a hard right turn that made the American reaction to 9/11 seem tame by comparison.

    What’s even more interesting is when I consider how the Arab world’s reaction and attitude to Israel was seen as backwards and pig headed - refusing to just let them be.

    I now imagine if those Syrian refugees had declared their independence and created a break away state from another European country, what the response to that would be.

    Probably lines up perfectly with the Arab world’s reaction to Israeli independence.

    • Ooops@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      No, its not a little refugee crisis that triggered this. It’s the constant and relentless onslaught of propaganda on social media 24/7 that makes their victims live in a constant everything-crisis because they lost any contact to actual reality.

      And that’s not a European thing but a human one. There is basically no modern country not afraid of the rising crime rates (that don’t exist), the scary streets in their once beautiful cities (that are actually safer than ever before), the rampant and uncontrolled wave of immigration (that only exists in their heads) and <insert random minority here> trying to replace them and destroy their way of life. Because they are all consuming the exact same brain rot that does exactly what the name suggests.

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        2 months ago

        The best cure to fear is exposure and taking away the source of fear. Education, kicking off from social media, and so on.