On stormfront you’ll read in massive subs such as r/soccer that Paris has a pocket of safety surrounded by pure crime. They’ll say shit like, “I went to Vienna and Budapest and not once did I feel unsafe”
You ‘felt’ unsafe? Are you just shitting your pants everytime you encounter an Arab or someone with slightly more melanin content? Like, almost every city I’ve ever been to where people say it’s unsafe is just a place with more minorities and I’ve never once felt unsafe.
Edit: check out this thread
https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/y2uwg0/psg_ultras_hunted_down_and_attacked_with_a_knife/is51xl8/
I actually donty think so. I say this because you get the same thing in cities where poverty isn't especially racialized.
Fear of crime is just part of the firmament of right wing thought. It has its own self-reaffirming engine, as if a right wing government is in power they are being as cruel to the poor as possible (good), but if anything other than pure cruelty is the governing factor then in their minds we're not being tough enough on crime, therefore crime must be getting worse. Actual crime statistics don't matter, the logic sustains itself independently.
Furthermore, media is always incentivized to sensationalize individual acts of crime, which essentially just is a way to hack human psychology because we struggle to think about proportionality in general.
This all serves as the basic reactionary playbook that gets activated whenever an alternative to unadulterated cruelty is being considered, and is very effective at preventing any "progressive" municipal politician from holding office for long.
On r/soccer, I think Rome might be referred to as one of those cities without a significant minority population that is known for stabbings and crime, so you might have a point.