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What is going on with people painting the red cross on the roundabouts to make the flag of england?
(lemmy.ml)
And why is this being related to rascism? It's not like people are burning the flag of other countries in videos.
In Ballymena, a large portion of immigrants were deliberately not targeted. It was mainly due to antisocial behaviour, which just so happened to be coming from a group of foreigners. Things like this happen to antisocial white people all of the time and it doesn't make the news.
And should go without saying, but no, I'm not defending it. It's just that what the media pushes out isn't reality.
"I'm not defending their actions, but their reasons were right" is such a cop out of an answer. Have you not considered that racists are going to hold racial minorities they don't like to a different standard to everyone else, and that maybe the Roma's behaviour wasn't so exceptionally bad? Or are you just going to blindly believe the words of people happy to violently remove racial minorities from their town?
But it wasn't down the 'illegal/legal' dichotomy you say are these people's primary concern, was it.
No it doesn't, if it did the Reform/DUP lot wouldn't shut about it. Or are you comparing a single person or family being ostracised to an entire racial group being pushed out of a town.
When did I say "their reasons were right". The whole time I've been saying that the media is oversimplifying it. And also that the police should have done something before it descended into violence.
And yes, this does happen. And the DUP do talk about these events.
I have several first hand contacts in Ballymena. They said this was one family. One used to work in a shop and had to ban them as they kept stealing stock. I also know another Romanian who deliberately avoided this other group of Romanians, to the point of crossing the road.
I've learned to trust first hand witnesses over the media. You'd be surprised over how wrong the media can be at times.