I've not the faintest idea
I haven't looked into it

But I certainly wouldn't just assume it was the case without thinking. Just like I don't assume that all young black men are drug dealing murderers. But, hey, whatever keeps you feeling liberal, my man.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:05, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

I'm going on my own experience.
When I was a child we'd have frequent traveller camps in my area. They weren't just one ethnic group by any means, but every time they'd turn up the incidents of assault, burglaries, robberies and car theft would spike noticeably.

Perhaps that does make me prejudiced against traveller communities. Frankly, I'm OK with that. What I'm not is racist. Traveller communities come from all different ethnic backgrounds. "Travellers" are not a race.
( Kroney, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:12, Reply)

You do know that's the same fucking argument the EDL and BNP use about Islam, right?
fucking hell.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:14, Reply)

Oh, come on, for fuck's sake.
Now you're just being insulting.
( Kroney, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:17, Reply)

And so are you.

(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:18, Reply)

no, I'm not.
The "it's not racist because Islam isn't a race so THERE" argument is bandied all the time by those fuckwits.

You're prejudiced against a particular group of society. Yes, semantically, it's not racism. Neither is sexism, or homophobia. You reckon they are "better"?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:22, Reply)

Yes, you are.
The reason for this is that you are judging this whole group of people from Romania as criminals simply by virtue of the fact that they have come from somewhere else and are living in a way you don't like.

Nobody likes the criminal element that is almost certainly present amongst this group, but nobody likes the criminal element anywhere.

But you really can't see just how prejudicial your argument are can you?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:17, Reply)

Well, for one thing I'm not the one assuming travellers are all from Romania, you are.

( Kroney, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:18, Reply)

Did you miss the original post?
Because you've spent a long time arguing here for someone who doesn't know full well that we are discussing a group gypsies who are allegedly form Romania living in Hyde Park, I mean, I'm not suggesting you're clutching at straws here, but you do actually talk about Hyde Park quite specifically in the post below.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:20, Reply)

*This* group of gypsies may be from Romania.
I was talking about my experience with travellers in general. I've twice referenced it in my posts and specifically stated that I'm not targetting one group of travellers over another.

My problem with travellers, with ALL travellers, is that the crime rate spikes when they arrive somewhere and that my sympathies lie much further towards the lives that are getting disrupted. I don't think a travelling culture is a decent excuse to allow them to spike the crime rate in this way.

I am not the one making this a racial argument.
( Kroney, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:24, Reply)

For fucks sake, this is jsut ridiculous.
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2041416

I'm glad you're so happy being prejudiced against groups of people because of the way they lives whilst being blissfully unaware of what sort of person that makes you.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:26, Reply)