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Thread #63958   Message #1047324
Posted By: InOBU
03-Nov-03 - 10:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where do Travellers Live?
Subject: RE: BS: Where do Travellers Live?
Anyone living within the boundaries of a society should do their utmost to conform to the norms of that society.

Now stringing up litter louts that could perhaps a less anti-social occupation for Irish travellers and Romanian gypos

Statements by those who believe there is a problem in England with Travelling people. When I hear words like "gypo" I am tempted to allow words like savages to describe the culture of a people who has murdered Travelling people by terrible numbers in the past, and still in mobs kill Travelling people, kill beautiful young boys like Johnny Delaney while screaming gypo, in the self same way that those in white hoods sceam niger niger niger like out of control children while stringing up the Black men they so fear...


Aggie, there are many societies in a country. Taking the long view of your history, you will find the vestiges of Viking, Saxon, and neolithic peoples leaving a bit hear and there and keeping some of their culture intact. The homoginization of British society has not happened yet, and even with the import of millions of American baseball caps, it yet may not take place.

While you deficate on Romani and Travelling society and culture, some will respond by deficating in the margins of your community where the less and less common ground disapears under the weight of concrete and prejudice.

Just as the poor will always be with us, it is a sad fact that we must tollerate and love the bigot as well. I just wish for the joy you miss and horror you engender, you'd grow up a little.

ALl the best
Larry