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Police abduct blonde children!!!

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The tabloid press and media across Europe appear to be engaging in a continued attempt to stigmatise and attack Roma people. They have waged war on the Roma family who had the blonde girl in Greece, claiming that they had trafficked her, stolen her, etc. These are traditional and long-running slurs against 'gypsies' and they are not well founded in fact. In the Greek case, it has turned out that the Roma family had been given the child by a very poor Bulgarian family, as they had stated to the police when asked about it. In Ireland, the child belonged to the family.

Attacks on Gypsies/Roma are a form of race hate and this type of smear is very similar to the race hate slurs against Jews that have circulated in Europe for centuries. The apparent outrage that a 'Gypsy' family could have a 'blonde' child is extremely racist.
Original post by Undoctrinated
actually the one in Greece was also genetically proved a roma gypsy baby too - just not originally belonging to the greek gypsies. The police sorted of tubled on that one


This is totally irrelevant. My point still stands.
Original post by Fullofsurprises
The tabloid press and media across Europe appear to be engaging in a continued attempt to stigmatise and attack Roma people. They have waged war on the Roma family who had the blonde girl in Greece, claiming that they had trafficked her, stolen her, etc. These are traditional and long-running slurs against 'gypsies' and they are not well founded in fact. In the Greek case, it has turned out that the Roma family had been given the child by a very poor Bulgarian family, as they had stated to the police when asked about it. In Ireland, the child belonged to the family.

Attacks on Gypsies/Roma are a form of race hate and this type of smear is very similar to the race hate slurs against Jews that have circulated in Europe for centuries. The apparent outrage that a 'Gypsy' family could have a 'blonde' child is extremely racist.


This is all very well if it weren't for the fact that they investigated the family not because they were Roma and had a blonde kid, but because the parents looked absolutely nothing like said kid and neither did their other 8 or so kids. But then again it's much easier to just cry racism.

Oh and it's nothing at all like persecution against the Jews. Don't pretend that Roma don't bring a lot of it on themselves.

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