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Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter
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We have a right/far right govt at the moment and our Minister of Imigration went out as a deranged town cryer, saying
"Fear, panic, anyone who isn't a quivering puddle of dissolved nerves does not love this country" and every major newspaper here gave her the whole front page. Ok, so some gave her the front page and asked if it wasn't time for our mental health care system to kick into gear and do its job with that woman but mostly they cried out in merry unison "fear for your lives!"...
There is definitely an issue with information going on here.
Another story here was some then unknown people set fire to a house with a refugee family inside, then a reassigned hotel filled with immigrants, many of them lone traveling children. The attacks caused an outcry but also cheering coming from good, loving, decent hard working people, as they were called in the papers. One of those who cheered got invited to a dinner party the refugees and management organized. He came there, looked around, talked with people, left the party when it was over and told the journalists he was sick to his stomach with the attacks. A few papers gave us a small feelgood story and moved on.
There is absolutely, positively, indeniably, an issue with information going on here.