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Right wing politics in New Zealand? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Hello everyone,

so I'm not actually from New Zealand, but from Europe and I'm currently very worried about the rising popularity of facism and alt-right politics in my country and europe in general. I'm very scared of experiencing physical violence and I'm now very seriously considering moving to another country before the facist parties are elected into power. One of the countries I'm considering is New Zealand, because there wouldn't be that big of a language barrier and also because I haven't heard of a lot of problems with facism in New Zealand. So I wanted to ask you if my judgement is correct and what the political situation regarding the alt-right is like in New Zealand.

Thank you for reading. I really appreciate your help :)

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[–] SouthernCross 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As others have said, more central leaning. Violence is on the rise with gang activities and rising living cost when compared to yesteryear. Insaying that, I have not witnessed any gang related activities apart from their motorcycle convoys.

This Wiki article might help.

[–] Mojojojo1993 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. I'm not sure if gang violence is up. It's more touted but that could be because of election year

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its a difficult thing to measure in general, and unfortunately the only widespread metrics available come from the Police and those numbers are challenging due to methodology changes, or their own agenda.

I think its probably true that gang violence is up, but that is and has almost always been gang on gang violence. I suspect there's a bunch of deprivation related crime that's being blamed on gangs, but is just down to people struggling to feed and house themselves.

[–] Mojojojo1993 0 points 1 year ago

Gang on gang can exist in a vacuum. Happy to have that as long as no one else is involved. They can just wipe each other out.