AIBU to question the media response to the Belfast attack?

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Why are the media being silent on the Belfast attack?

Is the open borders narrative that important to them that they feel the need to ignore one of the most horrific attacks ever seen on a UK street?

I despair for the future of the UK. It’s grim.

Anyone watching the news today will also see that there was a (fortunately non-fatal) stabbing within a school in Manchester today. If it turns out the perpetrators were asylum seekers, Reform will be all over it. If it turns out to be white kids, they'll have nothing to say. We all see this clearly.

The fact is, too many men are carrying knives. Too many men are borderline in terms of mental health - for all kinds of reasons. In terms of the U.K. population, the vast majority of dangerous men are born here, a few will be from elsewhere.

People here can’t be used as a proxy vetting system.

Someone should be stabbed in the eyes and head attempted to be decapitated to say yes ok that person shouldn’t be here.

The victim here is male.

I didn't say I was 'only' at risk from asylum seekers. I don't care if the number is tiny, one is too many.
Other countries who are brave enough to check have shown that there is a higher risk of sexual assault from asylum seekers from certain countries per capita. We don't collate that information because we don't want the answer.

Which countries?

And?
You might want to read the comment I was replying to.

That is demonstrably untrue google murder statistics from around the world and have a look at where the figures are highest and lowest.

You are clearly an idealist and honestly that is not a bad thing but rape and murder is much higher in other cultures than in the west. You are just in denial about this because you could have easily tested this claim before you wrote it down but because you want that statement to be true you didn’t check your thinking.

How would you manage an asylum system?

Stop minimising the horror of these terrible attacks by immigrant men.

"Other countries who are brave enough to check have shown that there is a higher risk of sexual assault from asylum seekers from certain countries per capita. We don't collate that information because we don't want the answer"

The vast majority of rapes, murders and child sexual abuse are from men known to you or your own family members.

The misfortune to be born under a particular regime like the Taliban is a totally different issue to innate predisposition to murder! How ridiculous to think you are more likely to be a murderer or rapist simply because you happen to have been born in Afghanistsn. Can people really not distinguish between government regimes and the actual people in a given country?

Enough already. The system is not working.

If it’s a tiny fraction of a tiny number why is it happening constantly?

So if Reform get in in 2028, you won’t be saying how terrifyingly right wing the men here are. You’ll be saying ‘poor them, the misfortune to exist under that government’?

It would indeed be a misfortune to be born under a Reform govt, yes.

Doesn’t quite answer my question.

Do you believe Reform getting in would be a sign the public is right wing?

I think it would be a good idea until they can get some sort of information about the person seeking asylum. It’s one disaster after another.

I think Reform getting in will be a sign that too many people in the UK feel disenfranchised. When they feel left behind, they want something or someone to blame.

Reform will do nothing for the actual people voting Reform. This much is obvious. The country will be more divided than it is already.

You clearly weren’t kept abreast of the Troubles if you think the IRA were the only perpetrators. In fact, loyalist paramilitaries killed the most civilians. Ever heard of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankill_Butchers

There’s a lot of contenders for worst attack ever on a Belfast street.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-violent-countries

How would you operate it?

What type of 'violent' is that review measuring though @smallglassbottle . I see Russia is first and Ukraine is ranked second. That's no doubt because of the war, not because normal people in those countries are somehow more predisposed to violence!

The silence is deafening.

Oh no, what’s that we can hear. Is it the sound of a cover up?

I have just said exactly the same thing to my husband

What silence? The coverage of the N Ireland government’s response was wall to wall this morning.

This is in very bad taste … a competition for the worst violence?