The posters now plastered around German public swimming pools are so hilarious that you may have seen them already. Keeping up my entertainment end of things, I’ve forwarded the pictures to multiple correspondents myself. See, news stories have been accumulating – and many similar stories doubtless remain unreported – about Muslim immigrants harassing and sexually assaulting native Germans trying to cool off. In response, some helpful bureaucrat has generated a series of images whose crudely drawn cartoon format makes light of the problem while wilfully, defiantly misrepresenting it.
Below ‘Schubsen ist nicht lustig!’ (‘Shoving is not funny!’), a white boy and vaguely brownish boy push a terrified black girl towards the pool. Below ‘Stopp! Grabschen verboten!’, a pudgy white boy gropes another terrified black girl underwater. In a changing room, still another flabby white boy bursts in on still another terrified black girl, who objects: ‘Halt! Bitte klopfen [knock]!’ My very favourite entails a rare managerial portrayal of fat that isn’t positively promotional. While swimming, an obese white woman with bright orange hair clutches the bum of a small boy with dark skin. To maximise the intersectionalism, the kid has a prosthetic leg. Are those things even rated for use underwater? Maybe this is the leg the poster designer is trying to pull.
The ethnic switcheroo in these advisories is wildly at odds with what the German public will have gleaned from both the news and their own experience (excuse me, their lived experience – though I worry that we white folks are only allowed plain old experience). Do authorities who contrive such aggressively deceitful images believe they can overwrite the public’s perception with their fantasy narrative? Do they seriously imagine swimmers will think: ‘My mistake! Middle Eastern newcomers haven’t been sexually assaulting German females. Rather, a bunch of bloated white Germans have been getting handsy with innocent asylum seekers!’
Subject to public mockery, the poster campaign’s glaring dishonesty mocks the public right back. The message runs: ‘Ja, we’ve had complaints about migrant sexual abuse in the lidos, but we won’t do anything about it. The official line is that they need protecting from you. We refuse to hear otherwise, so if an Iraqi feels you up without your consent you’re on your own. Reality is what we say it is.’
Our overlords are petrified by the consequences of the very mass immigration they engineered
This small story fits into a larger pattern of progressive deception. It speaks volumes that an expression derived from a film of 1944 has become such a shopworn cliché in the 2020s. The left has become especially adept at ‘gaslighting’, particularly regarding who constitute the baddies – and immigrants must never be villains. During the Joe Biden administration, the FBI asserted repeatedly that the biggest threat to civic order in the US wasn’t Islamic terrorists but white supremacists – as if repetition, rather than persuasive statistics, could make it so. In his repressive overreaction to the Southport riots, at such dramatic odds with his looking the other way during weekly anti-Semitic protests just outside his window, Keir Starmer has similarly demonised opponents of mass immigration.
Left-wing American journalists relentlessly recite the claim that immigrants are more law-abiding than locals, but the figures are fiddled. In California and New York, illegal immigrants are twice as likely to be in prison than local residents; in New Jersey, four times more likely; in Arizona, five times. But progressives override your lived experience of having your car jacked by a Venezuelan with an outdated, rigged and poorly supported statistic. While Starmer is reluctantly starting to keep the stats, the solution to the unpleasantness of reality in Europe has often been simply not recording the national origin of criminals, or at least withholding those figures from the public. And of course we’re not to ‘look back in anger’ at the Manchester bombing, concern about Pakistani rape gangs is a racist ‘dog whistle’ and ‘Windrush built modern Britain’.
As for the sexual abuse by young Muslim men that German civil servants are so uninterested in addressing, it’s hard to believe that even posters that faithfully represented the ethnicity of the culprits would have the slightest effect on these new arrivals’ proclivity for molesting native Germans and exposing themselves in public. The countries from which most Muslim immigrants hail scrupulously segregate the sexes. Women are required to hulk around in bin liners and to hide even their overstimulating hair. By contrast, the West is a sexual candy store.
Islam’s elaborate protection of men from temptation encourages them to regard their mighty libidos as uncontrollable. Why not give into urges whose suppression is futile? More, if reputable women conceal themselves, women who don’t conceal themselves are implicitly disreputable. Pakistani men prey on western girls because they hold the girls in contempt. The girls are all whores. Any woman in a bikini has no self-respect, so deserves no respect in return. That’s an ingrained, gut disdain you can’t cure with a poster.
This is what Matt Goodwin means by warning against importing the ‘culturally incompatible’. Underneath the governmental gaslighting on the real impacts of eye-popping numbers of profoundly foreign interlopers is fear. Our overlords are petrified by the consequences of the very mass immigration they engineered. Across the West, establishments must be torn over which passions seem more frightening: the anger and resentment of a burgeoning population of the recently arrived, whose fortunes are often comparatively curtailed, who may be disappointed by their deromanticised new home, whose loyalty to their origins is strong but whose loyalty to their adoptive nation may be nonexistent and whose moral code is at such odds with the perceived decadence of the indigenous. Equally forbidding: the anger and resentment of a native population whose begrudging hospitality could finally be pushed to breaking point.
For the powers that be, the prospect of turning loose the rage of either contingent – much less of both contingents at once – must be hair-raising. Via double standards, immigrants are placated and natives punished, while mainstream parties grow increasingly authoritarian. Anything to keep mutual animosity on a short, tight leash.
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