Guy on a message board knows the *REAL* reason for crime...

[Archae]

And he uses Japan and Switzerland as examples.

But this is his exact quote:

"As such, it is safe to say that diversity, rather than firearms, is the cause of crime and violence across all developed nations while homogeneity and integration is the cause of a lack of said crime."

[jberryhill]

1. They don't even speak one language in Switzerland

If you are on that "message board", you might ask him, "Could you remind me what is the official language of Switzerland?"

[Archae]

4. What languages do they speak?

Just curious.

[Lee-Lee]

5. French, German and Italian

[jberryhill]

8. here

https://www.google.com/search?q=official+language+of+switzerland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Switzerland

The four national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian and Romansh. All but Romansh maintain equal status as official languages at the national level within the Federal Administration of the Swiss Confederation.

In 2015, 63.0% native speakers of German (59.5% speak Swiss German and/or 10.4% Standard German at home); 22.7% French (mostly Swiss French, but including some Arpitan dialects); 8.4% Italian (mostly Swiss Italian, but including Lombard dialects); and 0.6% Romansh.[5]

[redstatebluegirl]

2. Lord they don't have enough brains to blow themselves up.

[genxlib]

3. That is a racist's idea of being politically correct

They even fail when they are trying not to be racist.

[gratuitous]

10. He needs to go back to Moronland

Be among his own kind. The only violence he would need to fear there is what ensues after someone says, "I got a idea; hold my beer."

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Does he think the UK is homogeneous?

Or Canada?

[Archae]

9. He thinks they used to be, but now that there are immigrants...

The crime rate skyrocketed as a result.

The guy is a racist, no doubt about it.

[Moral Compass]

7. I wish logic was taught in our schools

I attended one year at an English school when I lived in Bogotá Columbia. One of the courses that was required was philosophy. One of the sections in the curriculum was Introduction to Logic.

The first part of this part of the curriculum was concepts of logic and how to navigate through logical constructs. One of the areas of focus was logical fallacies. The very first thing you talk about when you’re talking about logic is that you cannot prove a General case from a specific instance.

You get into building syllogisms based on this fallacy so that you can see what it looks like.

One of the most common is:

the water is green
the boat is green
therefore the boat is water

When you see that written out it looks utterly absurd of course. You know very well the boat is not water.

I see these jumps from the specific to the general every day and in almost every political conversation. The right wing seems to be particularly enamored of coming up with these generalities.

Again, I wish that logic was taught inour schools. If it was it would become a reflexive skill and reasonable people would immediately discard this kind of thinking because it really doesn’t make any sense. That would leave only diehard racial supremacists (because trust me there are plenty of non-white racial supremacists) to contend with and to ostracize.

What makes this type of thinking so seductive is that we, as a nation, are untrained in logic whereas many other nations routinely teach it at a relatively young age.