For years I’ve been talking with a woman in Germany on and off using a piece of software that incidentally has a chat room. I don’t know her real name, don’t care what it is and have no desire to meet her. But we’ve been talking since 2005 at least when we see each other online.

So I know her as well as you can for someone you only know in this venue.

With the immigration to Germany, already her life has vastly changed — she now gets harassed on the metro frequently by North Africans and this is what she says about the city where she lives (much of the conversation is omitted because we were jumping topic to topic):

Note: she is extremely liberal, is not against immigration per se, but that she daily gets harassed by North African/Syrian refugee men has soured her on the prospect completely. No white men harass her usually. I asked. She said one once, years ago, after a football match. So, hundreds of refugees. No one else, really.

I know — just one woman’s experiences. It’s an anecdote. Blah fucking blah. But it’s a woman I know and like. And trust as she’s been consistent with me for a decade.

Now tell me how this isn’t a problem, when a woman no longer feels safe in her home city, when she used to before this refugee folly was undertaken?

Because I see a problem.

Note: I want to get rid of all harassers, white or other. If someone paid me to beat the hell out of them with free rein, that’s a job I’d take and enjoy.

But I’d like to at least take a look at the unbridgeable cultural differences here. And what it means to people actually experiencing it.