Northern English-Romanichal Gypsy / DemSocialist / 🏳️🌈 / Aspiring Genealogist / BA in English Lit + History @ Lancaster Uni / #KillTheBill / Opre Roma🌹
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mega thread: with the impending policing bill in the uk, i want to share some romanichal history and how this isnt new, its an ongoing struggle with the govs racist laws, criminalisations, and assimilation. for centuries, they have tried to destroy our romanipen but we survive
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PE teacher promised a good mark for 20 of his white students if they assault and publicly humiliate their Romani fellow student. The teacher laughed through the whole beating. #RomaniReality in Eastern Europe 👉 borsonline.hu/aktualis/2023/…
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This is the antigypsyism that needs to end.
romea.cz/en/czech-republic/p…
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My grandparents lost countless relatives and survived horrific experiences, only to hear their ethnic group described as filthy, criminal, stupid “Gypsies” for the rest of their lives. They never heard anyone properly acknowledge Romani #Holocaust victims. Do better, educators.
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there IS an issue w people online pretending to be Romani & faking their race, & there are people who have just found out they have distant Roma ancestry n ran with it, but that's a conversation for Roma to have, not those who want excuses to stan a whitewashed Romani character.
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Yesterday was #HolocaustMemorialDay and today I remind you that many “people professionals”in Europe openly consider us Roma to be (in the recent words of a Czech teacher) a biological danger. Social workers speak of an inborn “Gypsy mentality.” Our kids are segregated&attacked.
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yet another case of the law applying to Roma differently & much more harshly. on Jan 13th in Serbia, police officers broke into the home of a Romani family without a court order and verbally & physically assaulted them for "playing music too loudly." legal action is being taken.
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O perfil do Museu do Holocausto não cita o Samudaripen ou os ciganos desde o ano passado. O Holocaust Memorial Day idem. Ambos postam coisa todo santo dia.
Aí uma organização cigana contata uma ministra e consegue espaço em um dos perfis para convocar as pessoas a uma vigília +
200,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered in The Holocaust. They should be remembered. The way to do that, however, is *not* by not mentioning 6 million Jews @JulieMorganLAB
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Indeed, the fact that we do not have an official estimate tells you something about how seriously our civilisation takes Nazi crimes against Roma, Sinti and Traveller populations.
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as roma, our history, including our persecutions, are closely intertwined with the histories of other Travelling groups. attempting to cut ourselves away from this historical fact harms the solidarity we SHOULD instead be cultivating
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not interested in holocaust olympics but it took the german govt till 1984 to even admit there was a genocide of roma and sinti people, and many were not given any compensation when 'liberated' bc they were imprisoned as 'criminals' so perhaps baddiel can take a seat
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In Gjakovica, settlements that are home to Roma and Albanians are devastated by floods, but there has been no support or even acknowledgment of this by local and national politicians. Residents are infuriated at essentially being abandoned as their homes are washed away.
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Baddiel is a disgusting racist and this tweet is a perfect example of a very common form of philosemitic and anti-Roma Holocaust denial.
200,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered in The Holocaust. They should be remembered. The way to do that, however, is *not* by not mentioning 6 million Jews @JulieMorganLAB
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This is a charity run by a GRT group that wants to put light on the victims of Porajmos while not alienating others like the Jewish community, but fuck us for wanting to have an event that centers around us and doesn’t shove our 1.5 million dead to the sidelines.
200,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered in The Holocaust. They should be remembered. The way to do that, however, is *not* by not mentioning 6 million Jews @JulieMorganLAB
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Here is David @Baddiel's racism against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people.
Blackface is abhorrent. This too.
Racism is complex. To fight it, please don't ignore GRT experiences in your discussions.
We are legally recognised ethnic groups made up of POC and white folk alike.
