It really irks me how the Roma/Travellers are treated. If people actually do their research there are aspects of their society that are more moral than the mainstream society. How many people can say they take marriage as seriously as they do? how many can say that their kids were raised to remain virgins until marriage? just because they live separately from society doesn't mean that there is reason to distrust them. The sad part is that they, along with homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, and others, are the often forgotten victims of the Holocaust. It's 2013, give them a break already.
10 April 2013 at 12:17
A short intermission in our Christie series.
On September 5, 2012, Sun News' Ezra Levant painted the entire Roma people as parasitic criminals on "The Source." Not surprisingly, the Roma community in Canada and internationally, a people who know what can result from such dehumanization based on past experience, took issue with Levant's characterization of the Roma people (we suggest most people, left, right, and center, would take issue with Levant's claims as well).
We aren't going to parse his statement, however we can't help but be drawn to one claim he makes about himself:
I
am an anti-racism activist.
Huh? Wait. We couldn't have read that right. We'll go back and check that out again.
I
am an anti-racism activist.
Yep. He said that. That sentence actually passed through his mouth and was said with a straight face... or at least as straight a face as Levant can make:
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But we digress.
Wow.
Mr. Levant, we have no illusions that you care all that much about us or our opinions, but we do want to make something crystal clear to you.
You are absolutely, positively, NOT an anti-racist activist in any way, shape, or form.
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Close this window Jump to comment formWell, at least he apologized. Even if insincere it's still something.
18 March 2013 at 21:39
Is there going to be another anti-racism rally in Edmonton this year?
19 March 2013 at 11:10
It really irks me how the Roma/Travellers are treated. If people actually do their research there are aspects of their society that are more moral than the mainstream society. How many people can say they take marriage as seriously as they do? how many can say that their kids were raised to remain virgins until marriage? just because they live separately from society doesn't mean that there is reason to distrust them. The sad part is that they, along with homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, and others, are the often forgotten victims of the Holocaust. It's 2013, give them a break already.
10 April 2013 at 12:17