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Thread #146699   Message #3408585
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
22-Sep-12 - 04:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: 'NoTravellers'common UK sign?
Subject: RE: BS: 'NoTravellers'common UK sign?
Jim was quite right about the survey.
It was carried out by a reputable polling company and the results can not be dismissed.
Those who chose to reply gave their honest views.
I believe all people are essentially the same, and the poll would get the same result in any country with a comparable background of recent large scale immigration, housing crisis and unemployment.

What is different about us is that we care about racism.
We demand that our teachers monitor the conversations of even tiny children, so that if in childish innocence they say something an adult recognises as racist, it is picked up and explained to be not acceptable.
Each silly incident is logged for future reference, to see if there is a persistent problem with any child to address.
The numbers of incidents are counted and reported, which makes the bile rise in Jim's throat, but should not.

Our governments, with the consent and support of the people, pass rigorous anti-discrimination laws which Travellers in Ireland envy because there are no such laws in Ireland to protect them.
Those same laws have eradicated the signs that are the subject of this thread.
Jim was wrong.
They were never common, and are no more.