Germany is not set to receive 1 million , they already have 1.1 million arrived. Not stopped and checked at border just open door. I have seen stats that say another 3 million will arrive in Family reunion status over next year.

And so many responses here were apologists! They were split between saying it’s a just problem with all males, or Oktoberfest has issues too so it’s ok, or outright denial saying they were overblown lies by neo-nazis.

They’re called regressive liberals. They’re amongst the worst.

fuck yeah!, so ashamed of feminists and the left over this whole thing. the last 6 months have basically made me hate the left and progressives so much. Honestly, i hope Trump wins the presidency, its the wake up call progressives need to get their shit together. Once that happens, this whole handwringing over events…

Just a few pointers. I don’t know where you are from, but at my end of the woods (Europe, Denmark in particular) this story HAS been all over the news. It took a while to gain traction, especially because the German police was so silent about it, but now it’s all people talk about. However - the reporting has been…

Um, when was the last time 500 women (at least) were assaulted en masse in one night, in one place, by an organised group (or groups) of men? The Tahrir Squre gang rapes and assaults are the only one I can think of. The Puerto Rican Day parade attacks come to mind as well but they pale in comparison to Tahrir and…

Here, here. It is appalling. I feel completely fractured from feminists and liberals at this point. I’ve been annoyed at the hypocrisy for months and this is the tipping point for me.

and its not the right wing trying to silence women. Its the left wing, (its our own people) saying we need to shut up about the rape of almost 1000 women.

I emailed Jezebel this afternoon after seeing the BBC article, and after several days of feeling appalled that there hadn’t been a single follow up to what is a huge story for anyone following women’s issues. I’m assuming others here did as well and they finally realised that maybe having 4 articles in two days on…

CNN is a joke, but I had to really search to find this story to send a link to a friend. Didn’t find it on BBC either, and I found it on the bottom of the page on Al Jazeera.

There has not been a mass sex attacks like this, in the West, for 70 years. Yes, I think discussion in warranted.

I feel like I’ve gone insane. When we stop reporting objectively to push/suppress an agenda, we become just as bad as the right.

Wasn’t even on CNN’s front page? They’re like the mouthpiece for the government - they don’t care about women. They care about money and power.

My response to my (all too many) “progressive” friends wringing their hands over the right-wing using this to be racist is, “Probably some people will do that, which is all the more reason for us to offer a constructive response that shows how to advocate for women.”

and yet we never talk about this, and its not the right wing trying to silence women. Its the left wing, (its our own people) saying we need to shut up about the rape of almost 1000 women. I mean it really tells you how crazy the world has gotten when liberals are telling you to be quiet about the rape of almost 1000…

hell yes! I mean i know we all hate people complaining about political correctness here at Jezebel. But like this whole story is the textbook example of political correctness gone mad.

Found this article interesting; apparently Stockholm had some similar attacks last summer and the press stayed quiet about them too.

I actually have seen more comments like yours, then I’ve seen of people actually caring about women/condemning brown people. Everyone is chomping at the bit to say that we care more about this because “brown” people did it, when the reality is, no one cares about this! This has barely even been a news story. Yes, the…

Religious and cultural background absolutelty matter because they are explantory factors for behavior. Period. You can isolate these things as causal factors without being a racist, Islamophobic asshole, but ignoring the fact that numerous women were sexually assaulted by a specific group of men because that fact…

wow, can’t wait for all the islamphobic comments to show up. Like can we all agree this whole thiing is overblown?