# Ok, so what the hell happened in Germany in NYE? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 8, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538 "2016-01-08T23:28:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/321 "2016-01-11T22:35:41Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Because, like it or not, they had it worse than any of these German women. > [@Broomstick](#): > > I have no idea where you’re getting this. > > MY point is that rape is not the worst of all possible fates. We need to get away from that notion. Now, that said, it’s still a terrible thing to happen to a person. Being sexually molested/assaulted is also bad, but it’s not as bad as, say, slowly choking to death on poison gas while watching your children do the same, or having your limbs blown off, or being deliberately starved to death, all things which have been happening in Syria the last couple years which is why something like 2 million people have risked death by drowning and various other bad things in order to get the hell away from Syria. That would include some people who are criminals because criminals don’t like poison gas, IED’s, and starvation either. My initial response was to the quote of BigT’s above. And yes I do think saying ‘but the people who did it had it bad’ is downplaying their actions and directing attention away from the victims. Would it be said in other circumstances, if a rich woman in America or Europe was sexually assaulted or raped by another American or European, would people really be saying, “Well yes, that was awful what happened to her, but the person who did it had a deprived background so really its not so bad in comparison is it?.” I doubt it. And btw the majority of the suspects and the majority of the immigrants are from areas other than Syria so they don’t even have that excuse, if an excuse is what it is. Also if the refugees have been so brutalised by what they have experienced as you suggest should we really be inviting them in en masse? Its laudable to be compassionate but at the expense of the host nations safety and stability? For the record I have no particularly strong feelings regarding Islam, Arabs, the Middle East or Muslims in general, they’ve certainly never did me any direct harm, although I question quite a few aspects of their culture, but what I am concerned about an influx of people of a quite distinct religion and culture with seemingly no controls or checks being conducted at all. Again, I don’t see how that’s a contentious position. Also for the record because it has been mentioned a couple of times above, I don’t think this incident was particularly awful because it was directed against women, I would be equally concerned if it was large groups of men picking on and assaulting other men. But that’s not what happened. > [@marshmallow](#): > > There’s usually a debate on what constitutes degeneracy, but I think most people would call gang rape and violent sexual assault degenerate behavior. So if people are in agreement men are more likely than women and children to partake in these activities then people should agree men are more degenerate. Am I misunderstanding this or did you just make a sweeping negative generalisation about an entire gender? ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/322 "2016-01-11T23:08:32Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > I am sick and tired of Islam apologists using the charge of “racism” to beat their opponents over the head. > > I have three questions for you. > > 1. How can Islam be considered a race, when it contains blue-eyed blond Europeans, tan Arabs, brown Pakistanis, tan Indonesians, Chinese, and blue-black Africans. > > 2. Here is the definition of racism from Wikipedia. Do you agree with it? > > “Racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. Modern variants are often based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples. These can take the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. It may also hold that members of different races should be treated differently.” > > 1. Can anyone give me an example of a comment by Geller which indicates she subscribes to the ideas contained in this definition? Using a dictionary in a debate?!? You might get pitted! ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/323 "2016-01-12T00:05:16Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Actually, I think you will find a large number of the shooters will be Christian right wingers, if not actual Christian fundamentalists, or close to it. Also a large number of avowed racists. Racism/conservativism/Christianity in various proportions would be the linking ideology in the majority of cases. But there isn’t an organised Christian terrorist entity in the Western World which is actually propagating followers to go out and massacre infidels. ---
**Author:** ![T.M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ad7895/32.png) [@T.M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.M)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/324 "2016-01-12T01:46:43Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I dunno - but I do know the same has been said of Jews for centuries even though they have a similar variety of phenotypes. I guess it’s more proof bigotry is stupid. Judaism is a religion, Israel is a state, it does help to keep the two separate not all Israelis are Jews. There is a similarity between Christianity, Judaism and Islam as all three are global religions they are not based in any one particular country ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/325 "2016-01-12T01:50:09Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > Am I misunderstanding this or did you just make a sweeping negative generalisation about an entire gender? I do it all the time. As a man who was once a bit of a dog and who knows some much bigger dogs I know enough about men to be leery about giving them much benefit of the doubt. As a husband of a woman who was raped, and the father of daughters who I can’t watch out for all the time, I am of the mind to assume guilt until proven innocent. It’s not “fair” to all men, but it’s how you place your bets. Rapes are nearly all performed by men. Same with less violent sexual assaults. Simple facts, and if it hurts your feelings that I don’t trust you, too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/326 "2016-01-12T02:03:12Z")
> [@Ramira](#): > > So no the reality does not sail over my head, it is rather I know the reality 1000 times better than you, both in the structure and the actual events. sailed over your head and is now orbiting the planet. The Tunis attacks had a religious basis to them and were focused on killing random people based on the hate constructed from the religion. ---
**Author:** ![T.M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ad7895/32.png) [@T.M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.M)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/327 "2016-01-12T02:04:48Z")
Under fire Merkel admits Europe has ‘lost control’ of the refugee crisis as thousands of demonstrators take to the streets of Germany shouting ‘take your Muslims with you’ after sex attack crisis German Chancellor admitted Europe is ‘vulnerable’ and said countries do not have control of the situation Angela Merkel also said the euro was ‘directly linked’ to freedom of movement in Europe and if countries do not allow their borders to be crossed without much difficulty, the European single market would ‘suffer acutely’ Thousands of people took to the streets of the German city of Leipzig to protest against the influx of refugees Protesters chanted ‘Resistance!’ and ‘Deport them!’ and some had signs which read ‘Refugees not welcome!’ By Keiligh Baker for MailOnline Published: 00:53, 12 January 2016 | Updated: 01:27, 12 January 2016 Read more: [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3394896/Merkel-admits-Europe-lost-control-refugee-crisis.html#ixzz3wzWLRfLE](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3394896/Merkel-admits-Europe-lost-control-refugee-crisis.html#ixzz3wzWLRfLE) Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook The last thing I want to see is an election to replace Merkel the danger being a shift to the right when Germany needs stability. Hopefully this will not be repeated throughout Northern Europe ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/328 "2016-01-12T03:01:51Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Irrelevant to your claim when you cited her to"prove" Islam was forcing all Muslim women into restrictive dress. Good luck citing that I made such a statement. The entire dress code exchange started with Ramira’s knee-jerk response to billfish678’s premise that “Jesus sucks” would not get noticed in a Western country but “Mohammad sucks” would get you arrested in an Islamic country. It was never about any dress codes promoted by Islam. She then used Tunis as some kind of Example of Islamic dress. I pointed out when I think of Tunis I think of the terrorist attacks of recent years. > [@tomndebb](#): > > Your persistent efforts to blame Islam and Mohammed for all problems precludes you from recognizing the root of any problem. Not a big deal. You’re persistence in making excuses for the acts of Mohammad and his instructions precludes you from recognizing the connection. You take every event and hand-wave it away as some other factor. ---
**Author:** ![Hank\_Beecher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hank_beecher/32/7275_2.png) [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/329 "2016-01-12T03:19:04Z")
> [@T.M](#): > > The last thing I want to see is an election to replace Merkel the danger being a shift to the right when Germany needs stability. Hopefully this will not be repeated throughout Northern Europe The ones getting the worst deal of all are the ex-Muslims/gay Muslims ect who are victims of right wings racism and thuggery just for looking brown or Asian, and, as always, under attack from the talibros in their own communities, all while the deluded regressive liberals knock each other over in a frantic scramble to prove that they are more tolerant of fascism than each other, as long as the fascism comes from those with the ethnic flavor their virtue signalling requires. It’s not encouraging to see them [talking each other out of supporting the far right](https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/40ilrv/pakistanis_and_syrian_attacked_by_german_gangs/cyuey4q), and having a difficult time of it because their aren’t real worthwhile options as far as movements that stand up for them. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/330 "2016-01-12T03:40:38Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I do it all the time. As a man who was once a bit of a dog and who knows some much bigger dogs I know enough about men to be leery about giving them much benefit of the doubt. As a husband of a woman who was raped, and the father of daughters who I can’t watch out for all the time, I am of the mind to assume guilt until proven innocent. It’s not “fair” to all men, but it’s how you place your bets. Rapes are nearly all performed by men. Same with less violent sexual assaults. Simple facts, and if it hurts your feelings that I don’t trust you, too bad. Imagine if someone said: _“I do it all the time. As someone who was once robbed by a black man, and whose cousin was once stabbed in school by a black teenager, I am of the mind to assume guilt until proven innocent. It’s not “fair” to all black people, but it’s how you place your bets. African Americans have a high rate of per capita violent crime. Simple facts, and if it hurts your feelings as a black person that I don’t trust you, too bad.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/331 "2016-01-12T04:05:32Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Imagine if someone said: > _“I do it all the time. As someone who was once robbed by a black man, and whose cousin was once stabbed in school by a black teenager, I am of the mind to assume guilt until proven innocent. It’s not “fair” to all black people, but it’s how you place your bets. African Americans have a high rate of per capita violent crime. Simple facts, and if it hurts your feelings as a black person that I don’t trust you, too bad.”_ What about it? Always trust your gut-feeling / instinct is one of the most basic of advice given to girls to avoid being raped. Never compromise your security to make other feel better. It’d be extremely dubious to start to advice girls to disregard feelings of discomfort. Of course, this only goes for private individuals; not public officials. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/332 "2016-01-12T04:46:05Z")
The AP is now [reporting](http://www.startribune.com/swedish-police-accused-of-covering-up-sex-crimes-at-festival/364830651/) that Swedish police failed “to inform the public of widespread sexual assaults against teenage girls at a music festival last summer.” ---
**Author:** ![Hank\_Beecher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hank_beecher/32/7275_2.png) [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/333 "2016-01-12T05:45:14Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > The AP is now [reporting](http://www.startribune.com/swedish-police-accused-of-covering-up-sex-crimes-at-festival/364830651/) that Swedish police failed “to inform the public of widespread sexual assaults against teenage girls at a music festival last summer.” [Exposing Major PC Cover-up in Sweden – Leading Daily Dagens Nyheter Refused to Write About Cologne-like Sex Crimes in Central Stockholm](http://nyheteridag.se/exposing-major-pc-cover-up-in-sweden-leading-daily-dagens-nyheter-refused-to-write-about-cologne-like-sex-crimes-in-central-stockholm/) > [@](#): > > STOCKHOLM The Cologne sex assault on New Year’s Eve, where groups of Arab and North African men groped more than a hundred German women, has shocked Europe this last week. But a very similar incident, with a large number of perpetrators and victims, took place in the Swedish capital last summer. That incident however was silenced by large Swedish newspapers and media companies, despite repeated attempts from police officers to contact journalists. This is how leading Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter tried to cover up a politically inconvenient sex assault story. > > Nyheter Idag is now able to disclose in detail how major Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter deliberately covered up stories about widespread sexual abuse in central Stockholm in connection with a concert in the Kungsträdgården public square this August. “The mere suspicion that the abuse has been considered as difficult to describe involves a betrayal of the victims”,the newspaper writes about the event, almost six months later. > > On Saturday August 15th, the nationally acclaimed and outspoken feminist artist Zara Larsson headlined the youth festival ‘We Are Sthlm” with a crowded concert in Kungsträdgården in central Stockholm. Thousands of young people were in attendance to take part in the event during the last summer nights of the year. > > But for an unknown number of young girls the festival soon became a nightmare. Hordes of young men pressed against young girls, fondled and tried to cop a feel over and under skirts, pants and shirts. There were severe sexual assaults happening right in front of the stage, where artists such as Larsson and rapper OIAM performed. > > During a single night police and security guards had to intervene against around 90 younger males, but even adult men took part in the abuse, says an eye witness to Nyheter Idag. The eye witness has professional experience from working at the Stockholm Police Department as a psychologist. > > The police officer tried to contact Dagens Nyheter several times: “They never called again” > > The psychologist who knew of what had happened in Kungsträdgården contacted journalist Hanne Kjöller at Dagens Nyheter, by, among other things, e-mail on August 17. The psychologist says he specifically turned to Kjöller because he knew that she had previously written about controversial topics. > > “She was very interested and listened until I told her that all the boys and men that were apprehended were young asylants (unaccompanied is the terminology used by Swedish authorities) from Afghanistan and Syria. I sensed that she changed the tone (of her voice). But she also said that she would contact the police”, he tells Nyheter Idag. > > Kjöller got the phone number to one of the police officers who were on duty during the event in Kungsträdgården and could provide a recollection of the events. Nyheter Idag has talked with the police officer who Kjöller talked to in August, and he was eager to tell Dagens Nyheter about the massive cases of sexual assault against young girls in central Stockholm. > > “She sent a text message to me once, early on, where she wrote that she was looking for me, she wanted to talk. After that, I tried to get in touch with her, but that was when things started to get awry. She answered sometimes, said she would get back to me. But it never amounted to anything. She was interested in it for half day or a day, then she wasn’t anymore”. > > The officer explains that he worked for several evenings during this week in Kungsträdgården square. He tells of how he and his colleagues had to apprehend a large number of young men who sexually assaulted girls, in large part unaccompanied refugees from Afghanistan. > The police officer, who has worked as a police officer for over 20 years, emphatically states several times that the events in Kungsträdgården were systematic and extensive in number. This was what he wanted to tell Hanne Kjöller of Dagens Nyheter. > > “We got in touch and talked briefly, and she said she would call back, which she did not. So I looked for her, she did not call back. I tried to reach her at another time, but I never heard back from her again. I called several times, cannot say exactly how many. It was over a three or four day period”. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/334 "2016-01-12T06:31:49Z")
From here: [http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/11/taharrush/](http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/11/taharrush/) > [@](#): > > An official report into the Cologne sex assaults has concluded the attacks were by men “almost exclusively” from a migrant background, and links them to the ‘Taharrush‘ phenomenon where large gangs of men attack women in the Arab world. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/335 "2016-01-12T06:33:02Z")
> [@Hank\_Beecher](#): > > The ones getting the worst deal of all are the ex-Muslims/gay Muslims ect who are victims of right wings racism and thuggery just for looking brown or Asian, and, as always, under attack from the talibros in their own communities, all while the deluded regressive liberals knock each other over in a frantic scramble to prove that they are more tolerant of fascism than each other, as long as the fascism comes from those with the ethnic flavor their virtue signalling requires… A rugged hike of a sentence. Persons venturing to reach the far end should pack a lunch. Change of socks. I commend the first movement, when you express your sympathy with the victims. But with that as your apparent premise, you launch yourself sideways to put the slam on liberals who “scramble to prove that they are more tolerant of fascism than each other”. Or so you claim. Liberal Hypocrisy is not the number one threat to the Republic, that’s Cognitive Dissonance. Liberal hypocrisy had the number two slot until the Republican primary debates started. Now its Cruz. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/336 "2016-01-12T06:36:29Z")
Seriously, **sqweels** ,\* Blightbart? \*. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/337 "2016-01-12T06:38:50Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I do it all the time. As a man who was once a bit of a dog and who knows some much bigger dogs I know enough about men to be leery about giving them much benefit of the doubt. As a husband of a woman who was raped, and the father of daughters who I can’t watch out for all the time, I am of the mind to assume guilt until proven innocent. It’s not “fair” to all men, but it’s how you place your bets. Rapes are nearly all performed by men. Same with less violent sexual assaults. Simple facts, and if it hurts your feelings that I don’t trust you, too bad. This is one of those projecting your own attitudes on everyone else things isn’t it? I’m not going to give much weight to the opinion of someone who openly admits he was ‘a bit of a dog’. The vast majority of men _don’t_ engage in sexual assault never mind outright rape. And its misandristic to suggest that they do, never mind ‘all men’. What a sad world you live in. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/338 "2016-01-12T06:45:41Z")
Of course, the law-abiding majority of the migrants/refugees immediately turned the offenders in to the police. They did turn them in, didn’t they? Silence still means complicity. Those creeps do not live in vacuums; the people around them know/suspect the guilty persons. I’m guessing that now, 10 days after the latest assaults, the silence means the folks around them consider their actions to be within “community standards”. Some “community” they’ve got there. ---
**Author:** ![Hank\_Beecher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hank_beecher/32/7275_2.png) [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/339 "2016-01-12T07:33:44Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > A rugged hike of a sentence. Persons venturing to reach the far end should pack a lunch. Change of socks. > > I commend the first movement, when you express your sympathy with the victims. But with that as your apparent premise, you launch yourself sideways to put the slam on liberals who “scramble to prove that they are more tolerant of fascism than each other”. Or so you claim. I think you stopped paying actual attention long ago, or you would realize that widespread pc censorship of organized rape and sexual assault gangs is precisely that. > [@](#): > > Liberal Hypocrisy is not the number one threat to the Republic, that’s Cognitive Dissonance. Liberal hypocrisy had the number two slot until the Republican primary debates started. Now its Cruz. Only for those hopelessly stuck in the quicksand of outdated, narcissistic, political tribalism. It’s a great big world out there Lucy, with much more important facets than those you use to decide which American politician to bring into a conversation about rape gangs in Germany and Sweden, in order to make sure you keep your spot in the cool guyz clique with Jon Stewart and Micheal Moore. > [@](#): > > Seriously, sqweels, Blightbart? Sadly, that site was one of the first large ones to report on the attacks in Cologne. In fact, [it looks like they broke the story.](http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/04/revealed-1000-migrants-brawl-rape-sexually-assault-steal-one-german-train-station-new-years-eve/) What was that you were saying about Liberal tolerance of fascism? ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538/340 "2016-01-12T07:39:11Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > This is one of those projecting your own attitudes on everyone else things isn’t it? I’m not going to give much weight to the opinion of someone who openly admits he was ‘a bit of a dog’. The vast majority of men _don’t_ engage in sexual assault never mind outright rape. And its misandristic to suggest that they do, never mind ‘all men’. > > What a sad world you live in. It’s not sexist to note men are far more dangerous than women. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-the-hell-happened-in-germany-in-nye/742538.md?page=18)