the & #39;don& #39;t go to london you& #39;ll get stabbed& #39; stuff, coming primarily from the white and older middle class is, among many things, so SO offensive because that simply isn& #39;t who gets stabbed in london. yeah london has loads of knife crime but it doesn& #39;t affect everyone near equally

not impossible but it is extremely unlikely that a random visitor to london will be stabbed. the roots of the knife problem are deep and complex but its effects are really concentrated. i live in a borough with a lot of stabbings and it is wildly unlikely it will happen to me

mostly who gets stabbed in london is young people. kids. even school age kids. it& #39;s a serious, horrible problem, but it& #39;s not a problem of random violence, and hearing 40 year old landlords in berkshire hooting about it is doing my head in

like i get that it& #39;s primarily a racist cudgel for bashing khan, and i know that the reality doesn& #39;t actually matter to these people. but it matters to me. it should matter to more people not directly affected!