• bananoidandroid@feddit.nu
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    16 hours ago

    Maybe we need a different approach. As you don’t trust the numbers like i presented before where antisemitic hate crime reporting is 10-20 times as high as islamophobic hate crime reporting, what is a sufficient, or acceptable matrix that you would trust? I’m sure we can find out something we can both agree on. I’m prepared to accept whatever result, maybe i’m full of it but if there is no metric that you accept, there doesn’t seem to be any reason to debate in good faith.

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      3 hours ago

      I don’t trust British numbers because I lived in the damn place and claims of anti-semitism there have been politically weaponized and heavily so - when the rules are such that a Jewish Holocaust Survivor (!!!) gets deemed an anti-semite for criticizing Israel, you know the whole thing is bollocks.

      I’ve already went through all the reasons why the anti-semitic label has lost much of its meaning and hence the numbers for “anti-semitic” racial hate are muddied beyond salvation and why “perception” numbers (which is what you provided) are even easier to shift with Propaganda, and that what you claim doesn’t match what I heard over the years of reported experience of actual Jewish People or even what I see pop up in the small progessive leftwing part I’m involved in which is heavily into fighting against racism (and such things definitely pop-up for some other ethnic groups), so won’t go into that (again). In fact I literally just deleted a large block I wrote about it :/

      The issue is that you’ve persisted in using flawed metrics to prove your point that “Jews are not safe to live anywhere else”.

      How about this: show me proof that the number of violent deaths per capita of Jewish People in any European country are actually higher than for the whole population.

      “Violent deaths” is a pretty concrete metric that goes straight to show insecurity. Unlike perception of racial hate, death counts cannot be influenced by propaganda and it’s pretty hard to over or under report violent deaths (at least in Europe, were the Authorities keep a tight eye on people suddenly appearing dead). The number of violent deaths is also strongly positively correlated with violence in general so the former count should be a pretty good indicator of broader insecurity.

      If Jews are dying to violence in Europe more than other people then there is no doubt whatsoever that they are less safe.