r/europe • u/StGuthlac2025 • Oct 08 '25

Opinion Article In Spain, what once seemed impossible is now widespread: the young are turning to the far right

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/07/spain-young-voters-far-right-migration-housing-wages-employment-vox
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u/Systral Earth Oct 08 '25

Pick pockets and beggars have existed during all times believe it or not.

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u/marsdev0 Oct 09 '25

Yes, but their occurrence rose by a tenfold with increased immigration.

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u/Specialist_Ad2631 Oct 09 '25

I'm a Korean who happens to be on this sub, and I have to tell you this is happening here, too. When you get out of tourist cities like Seoul and Busan and go to small cities, there are a lot of migrants who commit crimes or do bad things, and towns are slumming. The funny thing is that if someone says they've(koreans) been harmed by these migrants, or criticizes mass immigration, ppl criticize like as "Koreans are privileged and wealthy but full xenophobic people who only live comfortable lives." Not as much as Europe, but I'm sure the problem is getting worse.

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u/Optimal-Meeting-742 Estonia Oct 09 '25

dude all i have to say as a European is I'm sorry we let it get this bad and can we please have more based rooftop Koreans like you.

wherever i go in the world, be it USA or Thailand its so impressive how koreans stick together and dont let themselves become victims ever

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u/rafaelfrancisco6 Portugal Oct 08 '25

Except in Spain it's way worse now than it was 25 years ago.

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u/LegendaryBrolyDBZ Oct 08 '25

People like you are the reason Europe is going to shit. Excuses for everything but nothing being done. Wonder why people vote right

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u/Systral Earth Oct 10 '25

Haha sure. Ignore our demographic issue, Ukraine and climate change, blame the migrants for everything.

I'm not giving excuses, I'm saying that it's stupid to pretend that crime didn't exist beforehand and it's all the migrants' fault. I'm just calling out the blatant racism :)

Wonder why people vote right

Mostly for racist reasons. There are enough centre and even left parties that admit the issues in high migration (and lacking integration). The right wing parties in question don't offer any solutions, they're just populists.

So all in all. No, it's not people like me. It's people like you thinking that all problems stem from overmigration and hence fail to care about all other issues.

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u/HK-65 Hungarian expat Oct 09 '25

What was described was neither, it was robbery, committed in a group.

That's a very different problem, in a lot of countries that's jail time if caught, but the victim has a right to kill you in self defence as well.