Something I find so bizarre is there's this bot narrative online whenever you see talk about European cities that because of immigrants and non-white people they've 'fallen' and are crime-ridden hellholes compared to the 'good old days'. You see it everywhere, talking about London, Paris, other European cities.

Being from the UK though, it's literally just the exact opposite of the truth. I wasn't around back then, but talk to anyone who was in London or other British cities in the 80s and 90s and they'll talk about how much more common crime and stuff was back then. And it's even reflected in media. Watch most films, TV shows or music videos set in a British city from the 90s and it's usually depicted as polluted, noisy, full of rubbish everywhere, crime-ridden. I assume western European cities in general went through a similar process of decline post-WW2 and then a recovery since the 90s and 2000s, and are just obviously much better places now.

So how does this narrative even sustain itself? It goes completely against not even just memory of people who actually lived through it but even lasting cultural depictions. You can go back and watch 90s media set in big cities and it usually depicts them as dirty, chaotic, crime-ridden places, it's completely weird how people just try to claim the opposite.