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Originally Posted by Osem
Doesn't seem to be too much sympathy around for these people.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/839493-b...itting-suicide
Evidently, the recent killings in Bratislava involved Roma gypsies and I've yet to come across anyone we know from that part of the world who's done anything other than shrug their shoulders whilst stating something like "well these people are troublemakers..."
Are these people so disliked because they're troublemakers or are they troublemakers because they're so disliked?... |
Roma gypsies have long been the victims of systematic persecution whether they have been troublemakers or not.
Throughout time they have been
persecuted wherever they have been. More recent examples have been the
Nazis and the
Czechs both of whom sought to either exterminate them or curtail their very procreation.
There's nothing new, or unusual, in european right wing politicians (or their followers) with fascist leanings electioneering by further persecuting them.
Funnily enough a 2007
UNICEF report identified 50,000 Romany children living as refugees in Germany.
You don't need to be a V2 rocket scientist to figure out what sort of allegations would be levelled at Germans / the German authorities if they attempted to forceably remove them or their parents from Germany. Why should the politicians or right wing neanderthals of France, Italy or indeed
Northern Ireland for that matter be any different?
They're "easy pickings" - and
historically always have been.