No, I don’t. I was just pointing out that you picked a very disingenuous way of stating that. (You could have said instead, for example, “some people who said something mean about the migrants have gotten harsher sentences”)
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Huh. I’ve been living for a year in a city where most of the population is foreign-born (myself included) and it doesn’t look like it’s going to hell. In particular I feel safer here than in certain other places with many fewer immigrants.
You may want to learn about how chilling effects on free speech work.
Judging by the number of people I hear saying ridiculous things about migrants every day, I wonder what would happen if such “chilling effects” were not in place—would my Facebook feed ever contain anything else at all?
No, I don’t. I was just pointing out that you picked a very disingenuous way of stating that. (You could have said instead, for example, “some people who said something mean about the migrants have gotten harsher sentences”)
Huh. I’ve been living for a year in a city where most of the population is foreign-born (myself included) and it doesn’t look like it’s going to hell. In particular I feel safer here than in certain other places with many fewer immigrants.
Judging by the number of people I hear saying ridiculous things about migrants every day, I wonder what would happen if such “chilling effects” were not in place—would my Facebook feed ever contain anything else at all?