Comments on: We’re not racist, but those gypsies… http://toglobalist.org/2013/02/were-not-racist-but-those-gypsies/ Oxford University's international affairs magazine Sat, 07 Sep 2013 01:47:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: Jo http://toglobalist.org/2013/02/were-not-racist-but-those-gypsies/#comment-14734 Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:10:04 +0000 http://toglobalist.org/?p=4436#comment-14734 Dear JohnC – not sure if you read the article in question before deciding to comment (and to prove the author right in saying that generalisations which wouldn’t be accepted about other ethnic groups are still common when talking about Gypsies)

…but the article clearly states that “studies that have been carried out, mostly looking at the impact of Gypsies and Travellers within one community, have uniformly concluded that rates of crime did not rise as a result of the presence of these groups and that local settled communities found that their fears before the arrival of the Gypsies and Travellers were largely unfounded.”

If you have any evidence (ie crime stats, not your own prejudiced opinion) to refute the above claim, please post it. If not, your comment is ‘without a basis’

]]> By: JohnC http://toglobalist.org/2013/02/were-not-racist-but-those-gypsies/#comment-1630 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:17:42 +0000 http://toglobalist.org/?p=4436#comment-1630 Racism has nothing to do with communities not wanting Gypsies in their district. The problem is crime and anti-social behaviour. Gypsies have a reputation for theft. That reputation is not without a basis.

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