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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheTechnician27 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 0 points 1 month 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 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sorry that happened to you.

[–] snek 1 points 1 month ago

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