The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #165455   Message #3970589
Posted By: Iains
08-Jan-19 - 12:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Refugees and asylum seekers
Subject: RE: BS: Refugees and asylum seekers
Oh dear it does get rather tiresome correcting virtually everything you say. Congratulations on changing the parameters of the argument when you have clearly been proved wrong. Humanity has been travelling ever since "Homo Erectus " found he could balance on two legs and go walkabout 1.8 million years ago, but that was not the argument was it?
The argument was about how long ago irish travellers diverged from the general population. The latest evidence I quoted was 2017. You in your rush to argue neglected to read the remainder of the article and only quoted work from 2007. Rather remiss of you, doncha think?

You attitude to Travellers is as racist as it is to my choosuing to live in Ireland.

Please demonstrate what is racist about pointing out the obvious deficiencies of the traveller lifestyle. After all I have said nothing that is not supported by extensive peer reviewed literature.
Some further statistics:On average there are ten times more driving fatalities within the Traveller community. At 22%, this represents the most common cause of death among Traveller males. Some 10% of Traveller children die before their second birthday, compared to just 1% of the general population. In Ireland, 2.6% of all deaths in the total population were for people aged under 25, versus 32% for the Travellers. In addition, 80% of Travellers die before the age of 65.

By any metric being a traveller is not conducive to having a healthy lifestyle. Yet still you wish to preserve it as a way of life.

Fact - there is not one 'Traveller' crime that is a well established and far greater aspect of settled criminality - not one
I am afraid I cannot understand what you are trying to say. Can you?