"A song that may be offensive to the Travelling People" - if a song is offensive to the Travelling People it should be offensive to all of us.

As InOBU said "What next, the Horst Wessel song? How about - don't rent to Blacks - Puerto Ricans - Jews..." I thought he was pretty restrained, especially for InOBU, who is not the most restrained of Catters.

I'm surprised noone's posted it yet - that has the effect of seeing to imply it's worse than it probably actually is. But I haven't seen the Horst Wessel song either, and I have to admit to being a little bit prejudiced against that one, and I don't think I need to apologise for that.

Maybe it's time someone posted the words, and lanced the boil. But as I said in my last post, the song itself is only one out of a range of disagreements here. If it turned out it wasn't the least bit offensive about Gypsies (or about liberal-minded Jews), that wouldn't sort out all the issues involved. But maybe it might let us leave the other issues to be explored again in less cluttered context at a future time.