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Anon checks out politics on reddit (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's cause most stories you hear about them are based on hearsay, stereotypes, the effects of being pushed to the fringe of society, and racism.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was thinking of all the stories from people who've been victims of a crime perpetrated by them, or social workers etc who have dealt with them.

But sure, I guess that's all hearsay.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is exactly how racist people talk about African Americans...

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's genuinely frightening to me that so much European rhetoric against Roma people sounds like 1950s US-era rhetoric against desegregation. Like the US is incredibly racist, and Europeans still somehow find ways to shock me over how they talk about an entire ethnic group.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Or treatment of indigenous people. "We need to take their children away so they can be educated in a safe environment (and not grow up like that)" is not uncommon.

Encouraging people to take away a group's children for the purpose of destroying that group is a violation of the Genocide Convention btw.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

It gets easier of course when they don't focus on the racial aspect but instead pick some other factor: we need to steal their children because they are poor, these children deserve better!

[–] laserm@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've been bullied by a Roma student. Yet I don't blame the entire ethnic group because one Roma person bullied me, you racist donkey.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry that happened to you.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Are you sorry for the Roma that you generalize against, when they suffer the effects of such stereotyping?