Both groups elicit frothing hatred in bourgeois hateful anglos.
Now imagine how homeless roma people are treated here in evropa
I’ll never forget the time a dude was busking with a trumpet. And he was good! La vie en rose and shit.
Then this old white dude came in the shop and told me “you know, if he put as much effort into getting a job as playing that horn…”
It’s free fucking music! For everyone! Why you gotta drag down the mood?
It’s free fucking music! For everyone! Why you gotta drag down the mood?
Some programming.dev chud then showed up to drag down the mood before removed by mod.
I don’t know a ton about Roma, but it always seemed like they have their own culture and a mild support system with each other in some way. I feel like being American homeless has got to be lonely as fuck most of the time.
Really? I feel like the homeless people, at least in SF also try to support each other pretty well
I see them chatting and hanging out pretty often, and a lot of times when I’m talking to them while handing out stuff they’ll tell me to head over to where their friends’ tent is
Roma are pretty cool and I’ve had the pleasure of calling some friends…but while they have a culture I’ve not seen the active hostility towards homeless people in the way even centrist Euros see the Roma.
Like talk to a balding French accountant and in the middle of a dinner he’ll say he saw a Roma family playing football in a nearby courtyard and suggest someone set their house on fire while they were distracted. And not as a joke, as a suggestion for a fun evening activity that had to be gently dissuaded.
Like shit you associate with straight up Nazis or the pre civil rights kkk coming from people you know vote centre left.
It’s not better or worse…but…there’s an aggressiveness there and I think with homelessnes it’s more “I don’t want to see them and don’t care how” instead of “I care how and it involves bullets”
Yeah, I remember as a child talking to my dad about some cool thing I read about in a sci fi book about people being sent to mars and some government conspiracy so that one of its moons would do some immensely profitable operation but it would eventually collide with mars killing everyone on it, and my dad just said “they’d have my complete support for that if they put all the g*****s on it” and I basically just went at him since I didn’t have the confidence to actually argue back against him.
The anti-Roma racism is so deeply ingrained in our society it’s basically background radiation. Children are misbehaving? Scare them into obedience by threatening to “send them away to the [slur]s”. Invite your normal looking centre left friends to the countryside for a barbecue? Casually get asked if the neighbors are colored. At family dinner with generic centrist parents? Random racist remark out of nowhere. Lunch break with white collar coworkers? Unprompted rant about how one of them saw a man who claimed to be [slur] say on the internet that he is okay with [slur] and this is why it’s settled that it’s okay to use [slur] instead of Roma and anything else is silly wokeness.
I worked with a bunch of Roma on the hop farm and they were honestly the best people I’ve ever worked with. There was a really strong culture of sharing food and Jan found me a banger of a VW Passat for only £500. Jan would disappear off into the woods every lunch and forage tons of cob nuts and apples and we’d all chow down together. Farm owner treated them like shit though which was fucking typical.
Many homeless folks band together and form community, though it’s tough because it’s often ripped apart by the state.
One good point is that Roma people share an ethnic identity, whereas the homeless in the US are the poorest and most in need across a whole set of ethnicities - though disproportionately the marginalized, as the function of marginalization is to make these violences, like being unhoused, tolerable to the rest of society. So Roma face a fundamentally racist and genocidal attitude directed towards them (a decent amount of their tradition of traveling is due to being forced out by various Euros - forced to adapt to that status quo).
Sure, [slur] support each other, but they’re also generationally perpetuating their way of living
Wow what do you think culture is? You do know that eradicating culture is a form of genocide? Roma people keeping their culture is a good thing, not a bad thing. Being sedentary is not superior to being nomadic, and there’s a huge bias against the Roma and other traditionally nomadic peoples from people with sedentary-supremacist mindsets.
Your post manage to elevate hitler particles of at least one European so far.
CW: Dehumanization, violence
It’s disgusting how many qualifiers and conditions liberals attach to whether or not someone is considered human. Live outside ? Don’t speak English? Lost your job, can’t pay rent, and lost your home? Disabled? Don’t have a college degree? Have politics to the left of Bernie Sanders? You do not register as a person to them and there is no limit to how much torture, misery, and death they’ll accept for people like you.
I’ll add to the list. Being a working class person from anywhere rural or the south. These are the powerful people(?) that are dictating our politics.
