Theatre Performers subjected to racist abuse in Dublin

Those statistics are incredibly high. So 1 in 10 Sub-Saharan people in Ireland have been physically attached 6 times in the 12 months before the survey? Sorry but that makes Ireland sound worse than Rhodesia or apartheid South Africa. Of course I can't say people are lying. But I am entitled to my opinion and I believe that is complete nonsense. I wonder how the question was phrased and what constitutes physical attack and mostly I wonder who committed the physical attacks? The implication is that the attackers were white Irish people but are there more details?

I can understand some NGOs have a vested interest in inflating the size of the racism problem. Their livelihood's depend on them solving the problem after all. If racism disappeared they'd be out of a job.

But I don't understand why some ordinary people seem to swallow these claims whole without stopping to think about them. I mean the stats in the above post indicate sub-Saharan immigrants to Ireland have suffered 6 or more physical attacks. Not 6 attacks ever. But 6 attacks in the past 12 months before the survey? Just thinking about that as an intelligent adult you would have to realise how unbelievable that is. Which makes the rest of the "statistics" seem very suspicious to me. I mean how unlucky would you have to be as a black person in Ireland to suffer not just one physical attack on the basis of race, but SIX in the space of a year? And 8% of people reported this? It's simply BS.

These 6 attacks include just about anything under the guise of racism or supposed discriminatory practices, so if someone said something that was perceived by the victim to be racist, then that would be considered just as bad as racial violence.

Ordinary people swallow these things because we're encouraged to accept the views of those with some kind of authority.. real or not. There's little interest, by most people, to dig into reports and check the records used.. or even to verify who funded the research and why.

Still... TBH, from living in China, which is recognised as a rather racist culture, if you go looking for racism, you'll find it. You can assign racism as a reason for everything negative that happens.. even when it's not actual racism, but because you're a distinct minority and it matches with the persecution complex that many people get from living in a country where most other people are of a different ethnic group. I've done it myself, but came to realise what I was doing, when I listened to the near constant complaints of other foreigners in China, and it made me understand what I was doing... but obviously other ethic groups would never do that.. yup.

Which is why I'm more than a little suspicious of these kind of claims.

Do you really believe 8% of sub-Saharan Africans could subjected to SIX physical attacks on the basis of their race over a period of 12 months? I personally think it sounds like absolute BS. I think deep down most sane people would realise that if that happened to even 1% of sub-Saharan Africans, it would be extremely unlucky for them to encounter not just violent racists so many times repeatedly, but violent racists who actually engaged in violence on each of those occasions. Deep down if you actually think about it you know it would be extremely improbable.

Do you really believe the stats? Like the 8% of sub-Saharan Africans that were physically assaulted because of their race SIX TIMES in the 12 months before the survey? If you stop and think about that you have to realise how unlikely that is. If that's one of the key takeaways from the survey and it's obviously a gross exaggeration, then it casts significant doubt on the validity of the rest of the report.

I would class this as deliberate misinformation.